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Title: Sweet Hereafter Movie Tie-In : A Novel by Russell Banks ISBN: 0-06-092324-5 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (88 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: What's so "sweet" about it?
Comment: It keeps you reading. I'll give it that. It's one of those books that you read from cover to cover in about 3 hours. But that's all i'll give it.
Russell Banks's "The Sweet Hereafter" is a story about 4 main characters whose lives cave in after a bus accident. It's told from 4 different view points which you would think would make it more powerful - however, I wasn't fond of it. The way Banks writes the chapters gives you no closure with the characters whatsoever (especially Mitchell Stephens, which really bugged me).
The book also reflects alot on the characters's pasts. What I don't understand is how SO many things can go wrong in this little town with a population of maybe 50 people. Death. Affairs. Sexual molestation. AIDS. Drugs. Alcohol abuse. Cancer. Marijuana and LOTS of it. Babies getting bitten by black widow spiders, for God's sake.
I guess it just wasn't my cup of tea. But maybe that's because I'm a 16-year-old theater geek who likes to read Harry Potter and books that were made into musicals in her spare time. But really, unless you like Oprah Books (which many people do...), I don't think you'll enjoy this novel very much.
Rating: 5
Summary: So good it's criminal
Comment: ...He's a modern day Ernest Hemingway, very simple but incrediblly complex. It's full of love, humour, mystery, tension, soul searching and double edged swords. It's big city meets small town and it's a clash of two different worlds.
Billy Ansell is one of the most dynamic characters ever in the rpinted word. He suffers from the death of his wife, but has to add to that the death of his kids. He remains a champion of human decency when he deals with Mitchell Stephens, as complex a character can get without carrying his skeletons with him instead of leaving them in the closet.
The story is simple and complex, thus comes the movie tagline, "There is no such thing as the simple truth." The simple truth is, however, that this is one of the greatest English language novels of the last 20 years. It receives my highest recommendation possible.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Masterpiece
Comment: I read this book a month ago, and have since read three other books, but this one still resonates with me. Every time I drive down a snowy Connecticut street, I think of Dolores and her bus full of kids. This work is brilliant. It's narrated from four points of view, each one utterly engrossing. I haven't seen the movie and have no interest in doing so. Russell Banks brings us to so many moral questions, so many human emotions, so many lives, that I feel enriched, saddened, and even transformed by his art. How could the movie match that? The overall theme of this work is loss and transformation, within a sparkling narrative of a terrible event. Read it.
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Title: Affliction by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060920076 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Rule of the Bone : Novel, A by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060927240 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Angel on the Roof : The Stories of Russell Banks by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060931256 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Continental Drift by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060956739 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Cloudsplitter : A Novel by Russell Banks ISBN: 0060930861 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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