After (novel)

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After is a young adult book written by Francine Prose. After a school shooting 50 miles away, the new grief and crisis counselor, Dr. Willner, attempts to control the students' lives in order to prevent another school shooting. Its plot is reminiscent of 1984 (novel) by George Orwell. The story has a vague resemblance to the Columbine High School massacre. This book was published in 2003.

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The shootings in Pleasant Valley were fifty miles away, but at Central High a grief and crisis counselor is hired, security increased, and privileges are being taken away.

No one knows why.

If you break the new rules the punishment is severe. And the rules keep changing every day.

School feels like a prison.

It's for thier protection, yet fifteen-year-old Tom Bishop and his friends learn that things are far more sinster than they seem. Students and teachers begin disappearing.

There's no way to stop it.

Nationally best-selling and acclaimed author Francine Prose has written a haunting novel about what happens when protection goes too far and what it means to have freedom extinguished--in the name of safety.