Before and After

by Rosellen Brown

Hardcover, 1992

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Available

Publication

New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c1992.

Description

When a young girl is found dead, the only suspect is the teenage son of a respected local family which faces the dilemma to risk everything for his innocence, or protect him from his possible guilt.

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LibraryThing member tjsjohanna
Certainly compelling, but ultimately there was no satisfactory ending - more of the same "there is no real meaning to life".
LibraryThing member deckla
A well-imagined look at what happens to an upper middle class family in a small New Hanpshire town when their adolescent son who has never been in trouble before Is suspected of killing his girlfriend. A page-turner, and an achievement in characterization.
LibraryThing member suesbooks
this was not a believable story in the least, but I was interested in the characters. Brown wrote good descriptions and presented interesting analogies. She also made me think about possibilities in difficult situations. I appreciated how she ended the book considering how many paths she could have
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taken. This was about a middle class family whose mother is a pediatrician, father is a sculptor, and the son is 16 and daughter 11. Many times people acted either older or younger than they were, but that also fiut the story. And this is another story that shows the importance of theatre in the court of law, which also is quite sad.
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