The Sweet Hereafter

The Sweet Hereafter Novel compared to the Movie ‘The Sweet Hereafter’ is a gripping tale of a small U.S town and the people who dwell in it. A saga of four vivid, sensitive souls linked in a school bus tragedy: the bus driver, the widowed Vietnam Veteran, the lawyer who tries to shape the heartaches of the towns people into a winning case, and the beauty queen, Nichole, who was left crippled by the …showed first 75 words of 1134 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1134 total…is far better. Due to Banks exquisite use of narration, character and shifts in time period, the novel comes out the sweeter taste, unlike the movie which is like coffee flavoured chocolate its bitter and sweet at the same time. In the movie there are lose ends while the novel leaves nothing hanging. ‘The Sweet Hereafter’ novel is not a book to get from the library it is a book to add to your library.