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The Life Before Her Eyes - by Laura Kasischke (Paperback)

The Life Before Her Eyes - by  Laura Kasischke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<br>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, <em>The Life Before Her Eyes</em> finds piercing beauty in the midst of a nightmare from long ago that echoes like a dirge beneath each new spring.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>PRAISE FOR THE LIFE BEFORE HER EYES<br>The intensity of The Life Before Her Eyes is both enhanced and leavened <br>by Kasischke's masterful and stunning use of imagery; she is as much poet <br>as novelist, and the melding of the two has produced a work of dark and <br>lyrical beauty.-Jo Ann Beard, author of The Boys of My Youth <p/> <br><br>

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