Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

  •
1 1

Click to look inside

Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

Checking stock...
Checking stock...
Proud to be B-Corp

Our business meets the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. In short, we care about people and the planet.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free delivery in Australia
  • Supporting authors with AuthorSHARE
  • 100% recyclable packaging
  • Proud to be a B Corp – A Business for good
  • Buy-back with Ziffit

Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts

Discover the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud, in this richly imagined novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion and The Perfect Horse.

"A breathtaking read that will transport you over the rainbow and into the heart of one of America's most enduring fairy tales."--Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours

Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, Maud Gage Baum, now in her seventies, sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank's passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book--she's the only one left who knows its secrets.
 
But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of "Over the Rainbow," Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her youth as a suffragist's daughter to her hardscrabble prairie years with Frank, which inspired The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Judy reminds Maud of a young girl she cared for in South Dakota, a dreamer who never got a happy ending. Now, with the young girl under pressure from the studio as well as from her ambitious stage mother, Maud resolves to protect Judy--the way she tried so hard to protect the real Dorothy.

You might also like

Elizabeth Letts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, The Perfect Horse, and two earlier novels, Quality of Care and Family Planning, which won the 2017 PEN Center USA Literary Prize for research nonfiction. She was also a member of the Peace Corps in Morocco as a qualified nurse-midwife. She splits her time between Northern Michigan and Southern California.

SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780525622116
ISBN 10 052562211X
Title Finding Dorothy
Author Elizabeth Letts
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 2019-12-03
Number of pages 384
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.