A multigenerational family drama about grief, motherhood, and coming of age, all taking place on an Ohio farm. Joan Chase's subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of "joy and ruin" deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women . The Queen of Persia is not an exotic figure but a fierce Ohio farmwife who presides over a household of daughters and granddaughters. The novel tells their stories through the eyes of the ...
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A multigenerational family drama about grief, motherhood, and coming of age, all taking place on an Ohio farm. Joan Chase's subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of "joy and ruin" deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women . The Queen of Persia is not an exotic figure but a fierce Ohio farmwife who presides over a household of daughters and granddaughters. The novel tells their stories through the eyes of the youngest members of the family, four cousins who spend summers on the farm, for them both a life-giving Eden and the source of terrible discoveries about desire and loss. The girls bicker and scrap, they whisper secrets at bedtime, and above all, they observe the kinds of women their mothers are and wonder what kind of women they will become. But always present is the family's great trauma, the decline and eventual death from cancer of Gram's daughter Grace. A powerful story about family ties and tensions, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia is also a book about place, charting the transformation of the old hardscrabble Midwest into the commercial wilderness of modern America.
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Very good. cover worn and faded at edges, back cover soiled and faded, spine faded, pages faded, faint orange mark on flyleaf. 215 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. 215 p. Audience: General/trade. previous owner's name. Clean, tight inside pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Book is tight with no markings, spine slightly cocked, minor tanning to page edges, dj has some rubbing and light soiling along with a few tears along the edges, some chipping at head and tail.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First edition, first prnt. Three text pages with offsetting from laid in newsprint (which has been removed); unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Chase's first novel.