Sweet Hereafter: A Novel

Russell Banks

HarperCollins, Jun 26, 1992 - Fiction - 272 pages

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 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 awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He lives in upstate New York and Miami, Florida.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sweet Hereafter: A Novel; Harper Perennial
• Author: Russell Banks
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 1992
• ISBN: 0060923245, 9780060923242
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary