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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316059862
ISBN: 0316059862
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: October 21, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Sales Rank: 1808
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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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 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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- If you can stomach the first chapter, it's an excellent bookI had a tough time getting through the very graphic first chapter. After that I found the book very compelling and I couldn't put it down. I liked the author's use of different voices throughout the book. I think the book should have been named Consequences or Ripple Effects. It really makes you think how a few stupid decisions by a few individuals can alter the lives of so many people.
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- Sad CommentaryWhile alcohol and sex were central to the story, Testimony is more about choice, accountability and the truth that nothing we do happens within a vacuum. Shreve uses the popular structure of multiple voices and while this is interesting, it might have been more effective if some of the more tangential comments had been eliminated. I found the book to be unsatisfying in its resolution (or lack thereof) and with the exception of Noelle, had no sympathy for or understanding of any of the characters. ... Read More
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- rotating voicesA very sexually graphic event starts off this book; three teenage boys have sex with a fourteen year old girl and it is videotaped. As the story opens, the headmaster, at the private school where it has happened, views the tape. The story is then told through the alternating points of view of many characters: the boys and girl involved, their parents, friends, the police chief and the headmaster. What comes to light, eventually, are the reasons why the event occurs and the horrible aftermath, which ... Read More
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- Couldn't put it downThere are not many books that I pick up that I cannot put back down. Even some of Shreve's other titles have been a bit on the long side. But this one really got under my skin. It is believable. It is heartwrenching. It makes you angry with everyone in the book for not stepping up to the bat and changing the course of events. It makes you consider the far-reaching effects of bad decisions. So many people making bad decisions- some little decisions - some big decisions - and every one of them culminating ... Read More
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- Great book about poor choicesThis book was interesting in that it was told by many different voices all explaining some very poor choices.
The book was sad, the subject was sad and the characters were mainly unlikable. But, as Anita Shreve does so well, she draws you in and makes you hungry for more.
The book drives home the fact that a split second choice can forever change lives....choose carefully.
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