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During the reign of the Queen of Persia

"The Queen of Persia is not an exotic figure but a fierce Ohio farmwife who presides over a household of daughters and granddaughters. A powerful story about family ties and tensions...." -- Back cover.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chase, Joan
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	NY: New York Review of Books, 2014.
Subjects:	Families > Fiction.
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Summary:	"The Queen of Persia is not an exotic figure but a fierce Ohio farmwife who presides over a household of daughters and granddaughters. A powerful story about family ties and tensions...." -- Back cover.
Physical Description:	215 p.
ISBN:	9781590177150 1590177150
Author Notes:	Joan Chase was born Joan Lucille Strausbaugh in Wooster, Ohio on November 26, 1936. She received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Maryland in 1958 and worked as a librarian. Her first novel, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, was published in 1983 and won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Her other books included The Evening Wolves and Bonneville Blue. She also won a Whiting Foundation award in 1987, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1990, and the Janet Heidinger Kafka prize for fiction. She died on April 17, 2018 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography)