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  1. Overview. In the novel The Sweet Hereafter, published in 1991, author Russell Banks tells the story of a fatal school bus accident and its aftermath through four first-person narrators.

  2. Dec 23, 1997 · In “The Sweet Hereafter,” an important character is a teenage girl who loses the use of her legs in the accident; she survives, but seems unwilling to accept the life left for her. Egoyan is a director whose films coil through time and double back to take a second look at the lives of their characters.

  3. Nov 27, 2019 · After a fatal bus crash that kills almost all of a town’s children, a lawyer tries to rouse some of the victims’ families to pursue a class action suit. The young girl, who is the sole child to survive the crash, and also a survivor of.

  4. The Sweet Hereafter. PDF Cite. Inexplicable mystery and the deep-seated human need to fix blame are the primary internal motivating forces of this new novel by Russell Banks.

  5. The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian drama film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, adapted from the 1991 novel by Russell Banks. It tells the story of a school bus accident in a small town that kills 14 children.

  6. Nov 21, 1997 · Directed by Atom Egoyan from Russell Banks’ celebrated novel of a small town’s response to a cataclysmic school bus accident, “The Sweet Hereafter” is a delicate and assured exploration of what...

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  8. 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.

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