Laura Kasischke

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Laura Kasischke (born 1961) is an American fiction writer and American poet with poetry awards and multiple well reviewed works of fiction. Her work has received the Juniper Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Pushcart Prize, the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers, and the Beatrice Hawley Award. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as several Pushcart Prizes.

Her novel The Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Vadim Perelman, and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. Kasischke's work is particularly well-received in France, where she is widely read in translation. Her novel A moi pour toujou...more

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Books by Laura Kasischke

Average rating: 3.39 · 4,264 ratings · 1,105 reviews · 23 distinct works

	In a Perfect World 3.15 avg rating — 1,048 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Raising 3.27 avg rating — 904 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Life Before Her Eyes 3.23 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 2002 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Feathered 3.15 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Boy Heaven 3.28 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Be Mine 3.01 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Suspicious River 3.64 avg rating — 103 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Space, In Chains 3.94 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	White Bird in a Blizzard 3.78 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Eden Springs 3.29 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Raising

tags: heartbreak , regret

31 people liked it

“Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.”
― Laura Kasischke

tags: love , struggle , success , talent , writing

13 people liked it

“your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.”
― Laura Kasischke, The Life Before Her Eyes

tags: forever , instant , life , the-life-before-her-eyes

4 people liked it

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