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| Original Title: | Testimony |
| ISBN: | 0316059862 (ISBN13: 9780316059862) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Noelle, Silas Quinney, Mike Bordwin, Rob Leicht, Meg Bordwin, Owen Quinney, Anna Quinney, Sienna, Ellen Leicht, Kasia Gorzynski, Geoff Coggeshall |
| Setting: | United States of America Avery, Vermont(United States) |
Anita Shreve
Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.57 | 27411 Users | 3303 Reviews
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| Title | : | Testimony |
| Author | : | Anita Shreve |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | November 10th 2008 by Little Brown and Company (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary |
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At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that details 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 delivers in Testimony a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.
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Ratings: 3.57 From 27411 Users | 3303 ReviewsCriticize Out Of Books Testimony
I've read a few of Anita Shreve's novels and liked them. Testimony was no different. It's a very powerful story that grabs your attention from the beginning and keeps you hooked to the end.The beginning of the novel introduces us to a devastating videotape that involves two boys 18 years old, one boy 19 years old and a very young girl, aged 14. The tape shows them involved in very explicit sexual acts. They are all very clearly drunk. This tape ends up falling into the headmaster's hands and heThe first chapter is pretty graphic but you have to get through it to understand the rest of the book. The chapters are told from the perspective of different people involved in a sex scandal at a prep school in Vermont. You learn how this scandal affects people in different ways, and in the end you wonder how it could have been prevented. I think this would make parents think twice about shipping off their teenagers to a high school many miles away from home -- who's really watching them and
Excellent audiobook - narrated by several outstanding readers. The story unfolds in a Vermont elite boarding school when several older boys are involved in sexual activities with a 14 year old girl. The story is told from the point of view of the kids involved, the girl, the girl's roommate, the parents, the headmaster. All insightful. As the mother of 3 boys, much of the thoughts of the parents are thoughts that ran through my mind at one time or another. Not that I ever had these issues with
In a small Vermont village, most-known for its private boarding school for the privileged children of the wealthy, and some who are there on scholarships, a scandal is brewing.We see the story unveiled, piece by piece, in the voices of the participants. First we learn of a tape, discovered by Mike Bordwin, the headmaster of Avery Academy. It is a sex tape and it reveals the activities of some of the best and brightest along with the unfortunate appearance on the tape of a fourteen-year-old girl
This is one of the saddest, most disturbing books I have ever read. My stomach was in knots most of the way through, yet I am glad I read it and I hope you will read it, too. I don't want to discuss the plot or the writing, I only want to say I don't think I'll ever forget the story, and I want to share a couple of quotes that twisted my heart and took my breath:"... and you'll remember, and it'll catch you up, and you'll realize how fast, how fast, a life can get all twisted around.""A single
Although I've read many books that alternate between narrators, I found this one a little confusing at first. The first few chapters seem to jump around a lot, but it doesn't take too long to get used to the style. This was a very interesting book and I liked how it showed the event from so many different angles. However, at the same time I also found that with so many voices involved, some of the characters got a little lost in the shuffle. It would have been nice to hear more from certain key
I didnt appreciate the graphic sex, nor did I actually appreciate the fiction. I found myself wanting to read the police reports, court reports and pyschological profiles of the incidents and people who inspired this fiction book.Here is a quote from the book that I thought had merit.I held on to the story at the Globe for as long as it lasted. I received a Pulitzer for my work on it. I could go on and on about the ethics of accepting a prize for a sordid tale about alcohol abuse, sexual
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