Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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This profound and daring novel explores all that is lost and gained between teenage girlhood and middle-aged motherhood. Diana stands before the mirror with her best friend, Maureen. She is imagining her future life as a forty-year-old wife and mother-a future that will be paid for by a horrific decision she has just been 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 sudden fits of pride that alternate with her deep insecurities; her fresh, fragile construction of an identity. And against the stunning precision of the sights and sounds of renewal, we experience the tasks of Diana's adulthood-protecting her beloved daughter and holding onto her successful husband, her exuberance muted by the relief of having made a home and a life. Laura Kasischke has ingeniously created a consciousness that encompasses both the truth of a teenager's world and the profound transformation of that world at midlife. Shocking, sensually charged, and stunningly original, The Life Before Her Eyes, like the best poetry, finds piercing beauty in the midst of horror and celebrates the glory of life in the face of death.

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Bookseller: ThriftBooks (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: G0151008884I4N00
Title: The Life Before Her Eyes
Author: Laura Kasischke
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 3
ISBN 10: 0151008884
ISBN 13: 9780151008889
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2002

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