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The Life Before Her Eyes
Laura Kasischke
其他書名
A Novel
出版
HMH
, 2002-11-11
主題
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological
Fiction / Women
ISBN
0547541457
9780547541457
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=c3y0PC60d1UC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
A “hauntingly original” psychological thriller about innocence, memory, and the effect of a moment of violence (
O: The Oprah Magazine
).
In the girls’ bathroom, Diana and her best friend, Maureen, are stealing a moment from the routine drudgery of high school when a classmate enters holding a gun. Suddenly, Diana sees her life—past, present, and acutely imagined future—dance before her eyes.
Through prose infused with the dramatically feminine sensuality of spring, readers will experience sixteen-year-old Diana’s uncertain steps into womanhood—her awkward, heated forays into sex; her fresh, fragile construction of an identity—and, in exhilarating detail, her life-not-lived as a doting mother and wife of forty. Together with the sights and sounds of renewal are the tasks of Diana’s adulthood: protecting her beloved daughter and holding on to her successful husband.
This “poetic” novel encompasses both the truth of a teenager’s world and the transformations of midlife (
Vanity Fair
). Resonant and deeply stirring,
The Life Before Her Eyes
finds piercing beauty in the midst of a nightmare that echoes like a dirge beneath each new spring, in a story that “takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love and friendship” (
Los Angeles Times
).
“Evokes terror and redemption, shadows and light. Kasischke treads a delicate line with the precision and confidence of a tightrope walker. She reminds us to look hard at life, to notice its beauty and cruelty, even as it flashes before us and disappears.” —
The New York Times
“Mesmerizing.” —
Chicago Tribune