2024 New York: William Morrow & Company, New York, 2017. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Gregory Maguire on the title page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine ends gently pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.95) with faint shelf wear, else Fine (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 298 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall. By the author of “Wicked."
The magical story of a toymaker, a nutcracker, and a legend remade.
"Hiddensee" imagines the backstory of the Nutcracker, revealing how this entrancing creature came to be carved and how he guided an ailing girl named Klara through a dreamy paradise on Christmas Eve. At the heart of Hoffmann's mysterious tale hovers Godfather Drosselmeier -- the ominous, canny, one-eyed toy maker made immortal by Petipa and Tchaikovsky's fairy tale ballet -- who presents the once and future Nutcracker to Klara, his goddaughter.
But "Hiddensee" is not just a retelling of a classic story. Maguire discovers in the flowering of German Romanticism ties to Hellenic mystery-cults-- a fascination with death and the afterlife-- and ponders a profound question: How can a person who is abused by life, shortchanged and challenged, nevertheless access secrets that benefit the disadvantaged and powerless? Ultimately, "Hiddensee" offers a message of hope. If the compromised Godfather Drosselmeier can bring an enchanted Nutcracker to a young girl in distress on a dark winter evening, perhaps everyone, however lonely or marginalized, has something precious to share.
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Product code: SIGNED, Hiddensee, Gregory Maguire, First Edition, First Printing, Signed on 2024 the title page