The Sweet Hereafter (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Banks, Russell, Affliction, Harper, 1990.

  Considered one of Banks's most important novels, Affliction tells the story of Wade Whitehouse, a divorced man who lives in a trailer, drinks, and succeeds only in alienating his daughter. By delving into Whitehouse's personal history, Banks shows how the pain in his past destroys his present. Affliction was adapted to a film of the same title in 1998.

• ――――――, The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks, Harper, 2000.

  This volume collects thirty-seven years of short fiction by Russell Banks. Although some characters appear in more than one story, this collection is not meant to be a broad view of a single setting, as in Banks's Trailerpark.

• ――――――, Trailerpark, Houghton, 1981.

  This collection of short fiction introduces the reader to the various members of Granite State Trailerpark. The inhabitants are a colorful cast of characters whose eccentricities, trials, joys, and pains are told by Banks through a series of related short stories.

• Meanor, Patrick, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 130: American Short-Story Writers Since World War II, Gale Research, 1993, pp. 22-27.

  The Banks entry in this volume reviews the author's short-story publications, from his earliest work to his more recent award-winning short fiction. Banks's work is considered in relation to his personal background, as well as other important contextual factors.