![]() ![]() Unfortunately for Schwartz, better writers have already covered this terrain - Russell Banks' The Sweet Hereafter comes to mind. ![]() The result is a flaccid thriller that confronts psychological truths with literary platitudes: Bruised skies, blank walls of memory, and birthmark-like stains are meant to reflect the brutal world these characters inhabit. Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. In turn, the couple must go through an inevitable (and interminable) healing process, retarded by the fact that the driver, Dwight - who has a son of his own and a story to tell - escapes almost without a trace. A powerful and affecting novel.'-The New York Times A tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartzs riveting novelReservation Road. His wife Grace works as a landscape architect. The main protagonist Ethan teaches English at the nearby liberal arts college. The book opens with a boy's death in a tragic hit-and-run car accident in the Northeast. Despite a promising setup and minor poetry, Reservation Road ultimately fails to satisfy. Ethan, a respected professor at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession for revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. In Reservation Road, John Burnham Schwartz commits the mistakes of an inexperienced novelist. A cycle of violence and retribution is set in motion as two haunted men are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. ![]()
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