![]() What you might not know is how much of an enormous franchise Oz was back in the early 1900s before the movie came out. Frank Baum on which the movie is based, even if you haven't read it yourself. You're probably also familiar with the book by L. One of those friends is the Tin Man, a man made of tin (shocking, I know) who hopes that the wizard can give him a heart. It's a beloved 1939 family film about Dorothy, a girl who finds herself in the magical land of Oz and sets off on a quest to meet a wizard in the Emerald City, meeting several new friends along the way. ![]() Unless you've been living under a rock for longer than most people have been alive, you already know what The Wizard of Oz is. ![]()
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The Byatt’s live in a village called Forest Grove labeled “Utopia of the Woods,” where everything is seemingly perfect and serene. The children provide some responses to her questions on what happened, but being their mother it doesn’t take her too long to realize the answers aren’t completely truthful.Īs you read, the author gives you a very well-rounded view of what a gossipy small town neighborhood might be like. Soon, Melissa comes home from a bike-ride to find her husband bleeding on the kitchen floor. It is automatically clear that one of the three children is responsible for it and there is a cover-up being formed, not to mention overall panic. Wall of Silence opens with the inner thoughts of the person who has stabbed Patrick Byatt, the husband and father of the family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 Brooklyn, and was reviewed in The Baffler, the New Yorker, Art in America, Frieze, and The New Republic. 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