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 After the First Death is a novel written by American author Robert Cormier. It was first published in 1979 by Pantheon Books, and subsequently as a paperback by Laurel-Leaf Books. It is classified as young adult... 
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 The Literary Review After the First Death.(Short Story)
06/22/1997: 2,790 words, approx. 9 pages My baby lies between us on the shiny yellow eiderdown. The next generation. I remember how we used to slide down that eiderdown, the rustle of the satin ... The sheets are new. Anna brought them back from New York your first winter... summary from source:
The Stranger Death After Death
02/21/2008: 1,027 words, approx. 3 pages Death After Death The One Thing That's Got David Shields Tripping The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields (Knopf) $23.95. Though written in language that feels entirely liberated from the tradition of letters, from the tone... summary from source:
 AP News Pharmacy error cited in 3 deaths
4/28/2007: 296 words, approx. 1 pagesA pharmacy erroneously made a drug 10 times more potent than intended, which killed three people who received it at an Oregon clinic, the state medical examiner said Friday.ApotheCure Inc., a drug compounding pharmacy company in Texas, said an employee made a weighing error in... summary from source:
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 Critical Essay by Bill Crider
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[After the First Death] is a strangely disturbing book…. There is nothing particularly new about [using terrorism as a plot], but the book is filled with enough suspense, violence, and sudden death to keep any reader turning the pages. What makes this book different from others of the same sort? The people involved. Cormier is not really interested in violence per se but in how violence affects peoples' lives, especially the lives of innocent people…. How can two naive young people deal... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Pamela D. Pollack
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The Chocolate War (1974) and I Am the Cheese (1977) … didn't pull many punches, but Cormier's [After the First Death] is another class of calculated shocker. A bus with a girl driver and a load of six-year-old campers is hijacked by Palestinian-type terrorists, among whose demands is exposure of a military brainwashing project, Inner Delta. The tense, claustrophobic on-the-bus scenes are related by teen guerrilla Miro (protégé of political bomber Artkin) and Kate, the cute...
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