After Alice

273 pages

English language

Published Dec. 8, 2015

ISBN:
978-0-06-054895-7
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OCLC Number:
899226586

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When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice's disappearance? Ada, a friend of Alice's mentioned briefly in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her friend, but arrives a moment too late--and tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself. Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and see her safely home from this surreal world below the world--

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Review of 'After Alice' on 'Goodreads'

Like Maguire's other revisionist fantasy tales, this book surprisingly lacks whimsy, but the reader is compensated by though-provoking parallels.

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Subjects

  • Imaginary places
  • Magic
  • Friendship
  • Fiction