Sweet Hereafter: A Novel
by Russell Banks
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Author: Russell BanksEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-06-26
ISBN: 0060923245
Number of pages: 257
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: 1.5 Stars if I could...Flat, Unemotional, Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
This is the story of what happens in one small upstate New York town when 14 children die in a school bus crash. This story is about the aftermath of the crash and the survivors.
I enjoy books that tell their tales with a variety of perspectives but I think Russell Banks did a poor job of developing the various voices of his narrators. If you listen carefully they all have the same voice, the same style of speech, or thought with long sentences and several thoughtful phrases interjected for clarification of facts or ideas.
I thought that this would be an emotional and moving book, how could it not be given the topic, right? Well, I have to say that I am a total self-admitted sap and this book didn't move me at all.
I thought the narrators were flat and somewhat unlikable.
I think that Banks would have done better to tell the story of the bus crash's impact on the town in the way that he eludes to it's effects at the end of the book. From the voice of Dolores Driscoll we learn the details of many different family's lives and how things have changed for them since the bus crash.
I will say that it was an easy read but not a moving one.
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