Sweet Hereafter

By Russell Banks
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060923242, 272pp.)

Publication Date: December 1997

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook

Categories: Literary, Media Tie-In - General

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In The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks tells a story that begins with a school bus accident. Using four different narrators, Banks creates a small-town morality play that addresses one of life's most agonizing questions: when the worst thing happens, who do you blame?




About the Author

Russell Banks is one of America’s most prestigious fiction writers, a past president of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into twenty languages and has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.

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