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Original Title:	The Sweet Hereafter
ISBN:	0099268809 (ISBN13: 9780099268802)
Characters:	Dolores Driscoll, Nichole Smythe Burnell, Mitchell Stephens, Esquire, Billy Ansel (Sweet Hereafter)

The Sweet Hereafter

Russell Banks

Hardcover | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 8194 Users | 632 Reviews

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Title	:	The Sweet Hereafter
Author	:	Russell Banks
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	September 25th 1997 (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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When fourteen children from the small town of Sam Dent are lost in a tragic accident, its citizens are confronted with one of life’s most difficult and disturbing questions: When the worst happens, whom do you blame, and how do you cope? Masterfully written, it is a large-hearted novel that brings to life a cast of unforgettable small-town characters and illuminates the mysteries and realities of love as well as grief.

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Huh. This book reminded me of the movie "Crash" --- it had that same feel of being a moving and at times heart squashing view of different people's lives and the way they come together to misunderstand each other. At the same time, it's very different than Crash because the central conflict or story is this bus accident and how people grapple with it. The writing was good, and at times the words were profound and very insightful. On the whole, I liked the book and I'm glad I read it. I wouldn't



The conclusion gives us an incredibly powerful image to end this, an almost impossible tale to tell. The awful tragedy in itself is not committed to the page, but the aftereffects are clear, the emotions are not hinted at but fully disclosed. I don't know if I was very much convinced that there are four DISTINCT characters, since they are so alike. I feel like a great bulk of the book was not told, not actually given to us the way it was supposed to: like evading a grand central question. Yeah,

I meant to pick up "The Reading Group" for a light change of pace after "Nickel and Dimed," but I had to take Naava to the pediatrician who often discusses literary fiction with me (he reads a lot of the same books I do, but in Hebrew translation) and I was embarrassed to come in with a fluff book. What can I tell you; we all indulge our vanity where we can. Meanwhile, after a 1.5 hour wait in the waiting room I'm too into the book to put it down now. "The Reading Group" will have to wait.

This book blew me away with its beautiful writing, many layers of story and the credible tension that Russell Banks was able to create out of such a simple premise, in fact it almost reads like a mystery. Banks writes in such a way that he opens up the small town of Sam Dent and deposits you right in the middle of it leaving you feeling as if you personally know all the characters or might have once lived there yourself. It is also an interesting character study and from my experience realistic

(I should say right up front that what Ive just read is an Advance Reading Copy of The Sweet Hereafter and not whatever eventually made it into bookstores. Did I miss anything? I dont know, even if the same HarperCollins-published edition is supposedly three pages longer here at Goodreads.)Nothing. Except that his tongue came out and licked dry lips. Then I recognized it: Ive seen it a hundred times, but it still surprises and scares me. Its the opaque black-glass look of a man who recently

A remarkable and remarkably simple piece of literature that spawned a remarkable movie.Russell Banks, Russell Banks, Russell Banks. If I write his name enough it might conjure a complete sentence from my mind, as though his name alone might rub some of his magic off on me and I could explain this novel to you. Russell Banks. It's not working. I just read Affliction which a truly incredible movie was adapted from, adapted so well that it seemed to make the novel a non-event for me, yet I knew