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The Life Before Her Eyes por Laura Kasischke
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The Life Before Her Eyes (edição 2002)

por Laura Kasischke

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Diana stands before the mirror, preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and seventeen-year-old Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment, the future she was just imagining is sealed by a horrific decision she is forced to make.

The novel takes us through Diana??s uncertain steps into womanhood??her awkward, heated forays into sex, her fresh, fragile construction of an identity, and her equally tenuous steps as an adult, protecting her beloved daughter and holding onto her successful husband.

Laura Kasischke has crafted a story of consciousness that encompasses the truth of a teenager??s world and the profound transformation of that world at midlife. Resonant and deeply stirring, this novel finds piercing beauty in the midst of a nightmare that echoes like a dirge beneath each new spr… (mais)

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Título:The Life Before Her Eyes
Autores:Laura Kasischke
Informação:Mariner Books (2002), Paperback, 288 pages
Coleções:Read in 2005, Lidos mas não possuídos, Favoritos
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very weird
  jenny.whitman | Apr 9, 2012 |
La narrazione di quese romanzo è strutturato in modo da annullare le differenze temporali: due livelli paralleli si alternano infatti per descrivere due momenti della vita di una stessa protagonista e, forse, la conclusione è lasciata al lettore, muore.
Diana, la protagonista, ha quarant’anni e un’esistenza apparentemente perfetta: amore, famiglia, apparente tranquillità. Ma il passato che sembra sbiadito nella sua mente come “i giornali abbandonati sulla veranda, come fogli di carta in balia della pioggia e del sole” è in agguato.
Un'ombra emerge nella coscienza e si presenta sotto forma di scatti di rabbia, malesseri fisici, strane premonizioni.…
L’epilogo, inaspettato e crudele, ci presenta il luogo dove la nostra coscienza proietta rimorsi, incubi e conflitti. Noi immaginiamo, come la protagonista, un doppio futuro, dove ciò che avrebbe potuto essere, è”. ( )
  cometahalley | Mar 26, 2012 |
I didn't think I'd like this because it starts with a school shooting, but the writing was lovely -- of course it was, she's Laura Kasischke -- and the main character unexpected. ( )
  picardyrose | May 7, 2011 |
Laura Kasischke's The Life Before Her Eyes is quite a remarkable book. I picked it up well over a year ago on the recommendation of an independent bookstore owner, and read the prologue when I got home, knowing I was in the middle of a couple of other books at the time, but still wanting to get a taste of the book. After finishing the prologue, I felt that I had had a satisfying reading experience on just those 10 pages alone, and couldn't wait to get to reading the rest as soon as I could. That was October, 2008. The book has been sitting on my shelf, unread, ever since I'm ashamed to say. This week, Laura Kasischke was doing a reading and signing at my local bookstore, so I was determined to read through this book this week, and I'm just sorry that it has taken me so long to finally get around to reading such an amazing story.

Diana and Maureen are best friends in high school. They do everything together, go everywhere together, are rarely separated. Their bright futures are still stretched out before them with all the potential that is available, until they are forced to make a decision that will alter that future forever: Which one of them is to die?

We skip ahead to forty-something Diana and her life now, her husband, her daughter, her happy existence. However, something seems to be wrong. It almost seems like her life is unraveling at the seams all around her. She is seeing things that aren't necessarily there or shouldn't be there, she is having moods swings, she is having unexplainable flashbacks to her younger days. What does all of this mean for Diana and what does it have to do with her younger self.

Kasischke's writing is so ethereal and atmospheric, it reads like a dream. We alternate between younger Diana and older Diana with a revolving narrative that has slight reflections from younger Diana onto older Diana's story. When the narrative is following Diana and Maureen, there is no real distinction between which girl is which, which seems fitting since they spend so much time together and are so connected, that there really is almost no distinction between them. As I progressed through the story and more became clear to me about what was happening for sure, I couldn't put the book down. I had a feeling I understood from the beginning what was happening but wasn't sure I quite had it, but when everything started to fall into place, the true power of the entire book was becoming clear to me. I know this is all very enigmatic, but I don't want to give anything away; the power of the story is in its unraveling. A truly powerful and amazing story that is beautifully written and not quite like anything that I have read before. ( )
1 vote tapestry100 | Jan 22, 2010 |
A great example of prose poetry and an extremely powerful ending. This book unfolds like a magic trick and will take your breath away. Lovely. ( )
  sinistersister | Apr 6, 2009 |
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Diana stands before the mirror, preening with her best friend, Maureen. Suddenly, a classmate enters holding a gun, and seventeen-year-old Diana sees her life dance before her eyes. In a moment, the future she was just imagining is sealed by a horrific decision she is forced to make.

The novel takes us through Diana??s uncertain steps into womanhood??her awkward, heated forays into sex, her fresh, fragile construction of an identity, and her equally tenuous steps as an adult, protecting her beloved daughter and holding onto her successful husband.

Laura Kasischke has crafted a story of consciousness that encompasses the truth of a teenager??s world and the profound transformation of that world at midlife. Resonant and deeply stirring, this novel finds piercing beauty in the midst of a nightmare that echoes like a dirge beneath each new spr

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