During the reign of the Queen of Persia
Chase, Joan2014
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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.
Main title:
During the reign of the Queen of Persia / by Joan Chase ; introduction by Meghan O'Rourke.
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Imprint:
New York : New York Review Books, 2014.
Collation:
240 pages.
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ISBN:
9781590177150 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2202729
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