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Joan Chase
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Publication date
April 15, 2014
Pages
215
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781590177150
ISBN-10
1590177150
Dimensions
0.60 by 5.10 by 8 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Original list price
$14.95
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
The Line of Beauty | Eugenie Grandet | The House of Mirth | How to Be Both | The Crying of Lot 49 | Let the Great World Spin | The Interestings | I, Claudius | The Glass Room
The Line of Beauty | Eugenie Grandet | The House of Mirth | How to Be Both | The Crying of Lot 49 | Let the Great World Spin | The Interestings | I, Claudius | The Glass Room
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Joan Chaseâs subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of âjoy and ruinâ deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinsonâs Housekeeping and Alice Munroâs 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 familyâs great trauma, the decline and eventual death from cancer of Gramâs 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.
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 familyâs great trauma, the decline and eventual death from cancer of Gramâs 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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Paperback
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With Joan Chase |
from New York Review of Books (April 15, 2014)
9781590177150 | details & prices | 215 pages | 5.10 × 8.00 × 0.60 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $14.95
About: Joan Chaseâs subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of âjoy and ruinâ deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinsonâs Housekeeping and Alice Munroâs Lives of Girls and Women.
About: Joan Chaseâs subtle story of three generations of women negotiating lifetimes of âjoy and ruinâ deserves its place alongside such achievements as Marilynne Robinsonâs Housekeeping and Alice Munroâs Lives of Girls and Women.
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