- Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition (Aug 31 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0316080519
- ISBN-13: 978-0316080514
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 2.5 x 17.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #263,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A tale that is mesmerizing, hypnotic, and compulsive. No one walks away unscathed, and that includes the reader." (Library Journal Bette-Lee Fox )
"Gripping....Shreve sets us down in a swirling drama that ruins lives, ends one, all stemming from a night of drunken abandon at a prep school." (New York Daily News Sherryl Connelly )
" Contrasting the sweetness of young love with the primal recklessness of lust, Shreve paints a chilling portrait of how bad decisions in brief moments can ruin lives."
(People Joanna Powell )
"Gripping. . . . TESTIMONY will break your heart even as you race on to the next page." (Houston Chronicle Jennifer Roolf Laster )
"Haunting....Paced like a thriller, TESTIMONY sustains its intensity to the end." (Hallmark Carmela Ciuraru )
"Gripping....Shreve sets us down in a swirling drama that ruins lives, ends one, all stemming from a night of drunken abandon at a prep school." (New York Daily News Sherryl Connelly )
" Contrasting the sweetness of young love with the primal recklessness of lust, Shreve paints a chilling portrait of how bad decisions in brief moments can ruin lives."
(People Joanna Powell )
"Gripping. . . . TESTIMONY will break your heart even as you race on to the next page." (Houston Chronicle Jennifer Roolf Laster )
"Haunting....Paced like a thriller, TESTIMONY sustains its intensity to the end." (Hallmark Carmela Ciuraru )
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A sex scandal at a New England boarding school unleashes a storm of shame and recrimination throughout the small community. A chorus of voices--those of the men, women, and teenagers involved--details the events of that night and their aftermath.
Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve brings us a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the impulses that drive ordinary people into intolerable dilemmas, or the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve brings us a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the impulses that drive ordinary people into intolerable dilemmas, or the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.
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Testimony, Oct 23 2010
By Brenda Casto - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Testimony: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
Testimony is a reprint of a book that was originally published Oct 2008, but the story is just as riveting today as it was then!A story that revolves around one reckless act. Three promising young men who attend Avery Academy, filled with alcohol and raging hormones shed their inhibitions and have sex with a fourteen year old girl, since they are over eighteen and she is underage it is considered a criminal act. Someone tapes the entire act and gives it to Mike Bordwin the headmaster of the school. The fallout from the scandal is life changing.
We hear this story from several different perspectives, from the people involved in the scandal, as well as the adults who attempted to handle the problem, and throughout you really knew that there were no bad guys in this story, just a reckless act that should have never happened!
This was a very fast paced story, one that I really couldn't put down. The author wrote the story in such a way as you felt like you knew the people involved, the storytelling was just amazing, she was able to tell this story with many different perspectives, sometimes this comes off as confusing but not so in this book, I felt like it really added to the story. Even though this story is geared toward adult readers, I think it might be great for older teens to read, to remind them of actions and consequences, and how easily just a few hours can change someones life in ways that they could never imagine.
If you enjoy compelling fast paced stories, where there is no clear cut villain, that deals with issues that face teens everyday, such as alcohol and sexual activity, then this book might be for you.
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