During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
by Chase, Joan
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/n/a
- ISBN 10
- 0345410467
- ISBN 13
- 9780345410467
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The novel that is sweeping the country. A beautiful story of 20th-century womanhood, of Gram, the Queen of Persia herself, who rules a house where five daughters and four granddaughters spin out the tragedies and triumphs of rural life in the 1950's. A first novel that not only won rave reviews but also the Ernest Hemingway PEN Award. Poetic from its first breath
Synopsis
Joan Chase was born and raised in Ohio. She graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in philosophy and history and later enrolled in the Writing Workshop of the University of Vermont. After being turned down by several publishers, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia was released by Harper & Row in 1983 and went on to win numerous prizes, including the PEN / Hemingway Foundation Award for first fiction by an American writer. Chase is also the author of the novel The Evening Wolves (1990) and the story collection Bonneville Blue (1991). She lives in Massachusetts. Meghan O’Rourke , a former editor at The New Yorker and Slate , is the author of the poetry collections Once and Halflife and a memoir, The Long Goodbye . Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times , The New Republic , The New York Review of Books , and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the inaugural May Sarton Poetry Prize, and teaches at NYU and Princeton.
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- Bookseller
- Nastasi & Associates (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- an1069
- Title
- During the Reign of the Queen of Persia
- Author
- Chase, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- n/a
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0345410467
- ISBN 13
- 9780345410467
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- persian history, iran, history
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