In the following review, Wachtel compares elements of The Sweet Hereafter to Banks's other novels, asserting that Banks "brings his passionate and profoundly exact craft to bear."
Because The Sweet Hereafter is smaller in both scope and page count than Continental Drift and Affliction, Russell Banks's last two novels, it offers an opportunity to see more easily what is central to the power and importance in his work: the ability to write about ordinary people (most of us) without accepting much apparent guidance or influence from the existing literary manners of doing so, or from the common assumptions of our times.
If not for the effects of the failing national economy, the tentacles of mass media and the upscale vacationers who drive north from the city, the small, upstate New York town of.....
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