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?
Into the Sweet Hereafter
โ Scribed by Kaye George
- Book ID
- 110618584
- Publisher
- Lyrical Press
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 541 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Spring has sprung in the charming tourist town of Fredericksburg, Texas, and one of the tastiest attractions is a trip to Tally's Old Tyme Sweets --until a bizarre burglary leaves a bitter aftertaste . . .
Tally Holt is thrilled to see her new replicas of vintage sweets displayed in the window of Bella's Baskets, a gift basket shop owned by her friend, Yolanda Bella. There's just one problem--the creations appear to be melting. The ladies assume the culprit is the broiling heat of the Texas sun--until that night, the store window is smashed, and there's only one thing missing: the replicas.
Tally is positively stumped. Clearly, the useless fake candies are more special than she bargained for--but why? When a rash of seemingly unrelated burglaries sweeps through the area, Tally is determined to sleuth out the answer--and stop a thief from killing more than the town's appetite . . .
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Atom Egoyan's Oscar-nominated The Sweet Hereafter is a good movie, remarkably faithful to the spirit of Russell Banks's novel of the same name, but Banks's book is twice as good. With the cool logic of accreting snowflakes, his prose builds a world--a small U.S. town near Canada--and peoples it with
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? ### Amazon.com Review Atom E
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?
From the critically acclaimed author of Affliction comes a story that begins with a school bus accident that kills 14 children from the town of Sam Dent, New York. A large-hearted novel, The Sweet Hereafter explores the community's response to the inexplicable loss of its children. Told from the poi