The Sweet Hereafter (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Russell Banks
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: Sam Dent, New York
- Principal Characters: Mitchell Stephens, Nichole Burnell, Billy Ansel, Dolores Driscoll
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Victims, Accidents, Death or dying, Fate or fatalism, Tragedy
- Locales: Adirondacks, NY
The Novel
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. A multitude of lawsuits accuse everyone politically connected with the town, the school board, or the school administration of responsibility for the accident, and the town of Sam Dent, initially united in its grief, is divided by the litigation. In order to examine the cause of the accident, the author offers several perspectives of people directly involved with the...
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