The Sweet Hereafter (Magill Book Reviews)

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There’s something disturbingly formulaic about this new novel by Russell Banks. It is as though he asked himself, “What’s the worst thing that can happen?” and “Who do you blame?” The result is this novel about a schoolbus accident in a small New York town in which fourteen children are killed. Banks then uses a common convention when an inexplicable event must be recounted; he tells the story from several points of view. He begins with the bus driver, a self-sufficient woman past middle age, then shifts to a widowed father who was driving behind the bus the morning it...

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