Afterwards
Subtitle: a novel
By: Gina Berriault.
Edition: 1st Counterpoint pbk. ed.
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Suicide victims -- Fiction.
Description: Hal O. Costigan, candidate for Congress, is the kind of man people envy. He has a loving wife, a supportive family, a devoted mother. Friendly, intelligent, successful, he is a man on the rise - until he is caught in an affair with a high school girl and commits suicide. On election day the reporters have forgotten him, and the radio doesn't mention his name.

Around Hal's hometown, however, a handful of people continue lives that will be forever haunted by his memory. In Afterwards (previously published as Conference of Victims), Gina Berriault charts the corrosive power of guilt and loneliness, showing how one terrible act can possess a family.
Notes: "Earlier versions of this novel were published under the title Conference of victims, in 1962 by Atheneum and in 1985 by North Point Press"--T.p. verso.