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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: 1587
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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- One Seriously Depressing BookI am an Anita Shreve fan. The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife are two of my very favorite books. I really enjoy her style of writing and Testimony is no different. It is very well written and the way she tells the story from all the different viewpoints is really interesting. However, there is not one good thing in this whole book! It starts with a horribly uncomfortable chapter and then just goes from bad to worse. It's incredibly depressing - death, adultery, loss of life, loss of jobs, ... Read More
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- Kind of trashy for Shreve...I usually love Shreve...mostly her earlier books. I hated how the book started with the graphic descriptions of sex...the writing just wasn't as good as her earlier stuff. Am I the only one who thought that this event wasn't worthy of such shock and impact? I realize that 14 year olds are not supposed to be having sex, but if you read any surveys of late, they are having sex. I just couldn't get all excited about kids getting drunk and having sex.
I did not get attached to any of the characters ... Read More
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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. I believe ... 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 results ... Read More
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