Testimony: A Novel
by Anita Shreve
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Author: Anita ShreveEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-21
ISBN: 0316059862
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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- ISBN13: 9780316059862
- Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Book Reviews of Testimony: A Novel
Book Review: Powerful and thought provoking
Summary: 5 Stars
"Testimony" is a compelling story of a sex scandal at Avery Academy, a small private school in Vermont. Shreve opens up the majestic gates that loom before Avery separating (or possibly protecting) its students from the rest of world and exposes a world of raw emotion, sins, repression, corruption, greed, sex, desperation, anger, and even love. The scandal soon becomes a tragedy, and its consequences reach almost every character in the book. The topics addressed from the politics of sex, the nature of greed, alienation in marriage, needs versus wants, for example, are all done so with a smart, fair, and insightful voice.
The real brilliance of the book is the way the author tells the story from many points of view, about 20. In so doing, she peels off layer and layer of the story, and gives another aspect, another perspective to consider. The writing is gripping, and the story fascinating. But the real genius is how Ms. Shreve takes this story poses questions, always and keeping the reader thinking and questioning the morality, innocence, and guilt of the characters, and possibly even of him or herself. A powerful read.
Summary of Testimony: A Novel
At aWriting 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 compellinglyexplores 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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