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Moreover, as suggested by the title, the “hereafter” of the tragic event is made “sweet” indeed by a calculated plot twist aimed at leaving a warm feeling of acceptance in the hearts and...
In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks demonstrates how devastating the loss of fourteen children is to a small town. The author tells the tragic story of a school bus accident and its aftermath...
The Sweet Hereafter dramatizes the emotional impact of a school-bus accident on the injured survivors, the families of the victims, and the people of the small mountain town of Sam Dent, New York.
Sep 15, 1991 · THE SWEET HEREAFTER By Russell Banks. 257 pp. New York. HarperCollins Publishers. You are likely not to have forgotten that heartbreaking accident in East Coldenham, N.Y., in November 1989,...
As the novel unfolds in the small town of Sam Dent, New York the characters reveal exactly what happened on the day of the accident—January 27, 1990—the immediate reaction of the people involved, and how each of the four characters is changed by the accident.
Nov 27, 2019 · Atom Egoyan’s adaptation of Russell Banks’ The Sweet Hereafter treats two tragedies: a bus crash in which all but one of a community’s school-age children plunge to their deaths in icy water, and incest.
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In his sixth novel, The Sweet Hereafter, revolving around a school bus accident, likewise, Banks reveals the various ways ordinary American individuals and their community as a whole react to the tragic event.
