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Bezig met laden... De zoete toekomst (1991)door Russell Banks
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is a haunting book about the aftermath of a school bus crash that took the lives of fourteen children and left others injured, some irrevocably. It takes place in a small town in upstate New York named Sam Dent. There is shock, profound grief, followed by a need to find the responsible party. Personal injury attorneys descend on the small town to represent the families, many attending the funerals of the children to make contact with their parents. It is told from different perspectives. These include the bus driver, Dolores Driscoll, who escaped unscathed, but shattered by the enormity of the accident; Mitchell Stephens, a NYC attorney with a daughter fighting an addiction; Billy Ansel, a widowed Vietnam veteran whose twins both died in the crash; and Nichole Burnell, the fourteen-year-old girl who will never walk again and has been the victim of her father's sexual abuse for years. This is a book whose stories will stay with me. The small town itself becomes a character when the inhabitants slowly come together following the tragedy. This is a beautiful and masterfully written book. Banks employs multiple narrators in a way quite unlike other writers, and the story is set up to move along at just the right pace. Devoid any excessive sentimentality, while writing about a near-unspeakable tragedy in a small town, he does a terrific job of sketching the various townfolk of a small by-the-side town in upstate New York. The people seem real, the emotions seem real and there is nary a false note. Highly, highly recommended geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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? Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Nothing about grief is simple. For people, families, or communities. Banks writes it all here. ( )