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by Laura Kasischke
Diana stands before the mirror preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment, the future she was just imagining--a doting wife and mother at the age of 40--is sealed by a horrific decision she is forced to make.
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Diana stands before the mirror preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment the future she was just imagining--a doting wife and mother at the age of forty--is sealed by a horrific decision she is forced to make. In prose infused with the dramatically feminine sensuality of spring, we experience seventeen-year-old Diana's uncertain steps into womanhood--her awkward, heated forays into sex; her fresh, fragile construction of an identity. Together with the sights and sounds of renewal, we experience the tasks of Diana's adulthood: protecting her beloved daughter and holding onto her successful husband.
An acclaimed writer and poet, Laura Kasischke has crafted a consciousness that encompasses the truth of a teenager's world and the profound transformation of that world at midlife. Resonant and deeply stirring, The Life Before Her Eyes finds piercing beauty in the midst of a nightmare from long ago that echoes like a dirge beneath each new spring.
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- Title The Life Before Her Eyes
- Author Laura Kasischke
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Orlando, Florida
- Date 2002-11-11
- ISBN 9780156027120 / 0156027127
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Teenage girls
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001024311
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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PRAISE FOR THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES
"Hauntingly original . . . A tour de force."--O Magazine
"Potent and poetic storytelling. Such is the agility of [Kasischke's] writing that it can encompass both a heinously nihilistic act and a most magical . . . outcome."--Elle
"Poetic . . . A novel that takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love, and friendship."--Los Angeles Times
"Hauntingly original . . . A tour de force."--O Magazine
"Potent and poetic storytelling. Such is the agility of [Kasischke's] writing that it can encompass both a heinously nihilistic act and a most magical . . . outcome."--Elle
"Poetic . . . A novel that takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love, and friendship."--Los Angeles Times
Citations
- Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2003, 03/01/2003, Page 1
- Kliatt, 05/01/2003, Page 18
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