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Zusatztext "Nothing is as it first appears in Laura Kasischke's suspense novel THE RAISING...Just when readers think they've got it all figured out! there's another twist that spins them off in another direction...The kind of story readers won't soon forget." Informationen zum Autor Laura Kasischke teaches in the MFA program at the University of Michigan. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, she has published eight collections of poetry and ten novels, three of which have been made into films, including The Life Before Her Eyes . Klappentext Last year Godwin Honors Hall was draped in black. The university was mourningthe loss of one of its own: Nicole Werner, a blond, beautiful, straight-A sororitysister tragically killed in a car accident that left her boyfriend, who was driving,remarkably—some say suspiciously—unscathed. Although a year has passed, as winter begins and the nights darken, obsession withNicole and her death reignites: She was so pretty. So sweet-tempered. So innocent. Tooyoung to die. Unless she didn’t. Because rumor has it that she’s back. Zusammenfassung “Kasischke’s writing does what good poetry does—it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence! one of facade and reflection.” — New York Times Book Review “Haunting! unsettling! and unforgettable! The Raising limns love! longing! belonging and the things we only think we know about life—and yes! death.” —Caroline Leavitt! author of Pictures of You From Laura Kasischke! the critically acclaimed! bestselling author of In a Perfect World and The Life Before Her Eyes ! comes a hypnotic mystery about one girl’s tragic death and the fallout that occurs on her closely-knit college campus. Part Stephen King! part Donna Tartt! and wholly unforgettable ! Kasischke’s The Raising sets a new standard for hair-raising literary suspense. ...
