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    Jun 3, 2007, 01:11 PM
    Book title
    I have been trying to find the title and author of a book I read some time ago. I read it in an edition of Reader's Digest Condensed Books. But unfortunately I do not remember which selection. Anyway it was a story of a school bus accident during a winter storm.
    Can you help me?
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    Jun 3, 2007, 01:21 PM
    You might try contacting someone on the following site: Reader's Digest
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    Jun 3, 2007, 01:33 PM
    "The Sweet Hereafter", by Russell Banks is a book about a school bus crash in the Winter. Is this what you are thinking of?

    A synopsis:

    "From Library Journal
    One snowy morning in the small town of Sam Dent in upstate New York, a school bus careens into a frozen stream, killing 14 children. The Sweet Hereafter examines the aftereffects of this accident through the eyes of four narrators: the driver of the bus, a parent devastated by the loss of two children, an opportunistic big-city lawyer, and a permanently crippled teenager who survived the crash. Grief and an obsessive need to assign blame draw the townspeople together; all too quickly the focus shifts from what they have lost to how much they stand to collect in insurance settlements. Banks, who along with Raymond Carver, Ernest Herbert, and a handful of other writers has revived the genre of working-class fiction in the last decade, is uncharacteristically heavy-handed in extracting a moral from these proceedings. Not up to the high standard set by Continental Drift ( LJ 4/15/85). Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/91."
    - Edward B. St. John, Loyola Law Sch. Lib. Los Angeles
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    Jun 10, 2007, 07:26 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by damselindistress
    I have been trying to find the title and author of a book I read some time ago. I read it in an edition of Reader's Digest Condensed Books. But unfortunately I do not remember which selection. Anyway it was a story of a school bus accident during a winter storm.
    Can you help me?
    I believe the response above from shygrneyzs is the book you are thinking of-- they made a film out of it. Quite haunting.

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