Daughter Of The Queen Of Sheba
by Lyden, Jacki
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395765315
- ISBN 13
- 9780395765319
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Synopsis
As an adult, National Public Radio foreign correspondent Jacki Lyden has spent her life on the front lines of some of the world?s most dangerous war zones. As a child, she lived in a war zone of a different kind. Her mother, Dolores, suffered from what is now called manic depression; but when Jacki was growing up in a small Midwestern town, Dolores was simply called crazy. In her manic phases, Dolores became Marie Antoinette or the Queen of Sheba, exotically delusional and frightening, yet to young Jacki also transcendent, even inspiring. In time, Jacki grew to accept, even relish, Dolores?s bizarre episodes, marveling at her mother?s creative energy and using it to fuel her own. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and lyrical, this memoir of a mother-daughter relationship is a testimony to obstinate devotion in the face of bewildering illness.
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- HousatonicBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007691
- Title
- Daughter Of The Queen Of Sheba
- Author
- Lyden, Jacki
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; First Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395765315
- ISBN 13
- 9780395765319
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 1997
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- Biographies & Memoirs : Professionals & Academics;
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