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Testimony
- Author
- Anita Shreve
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 21 October 2008
- Run Time
- 8 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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"Shreve flawlessly weaves a tale that is mesmerizing, hypnotic, and compulsive."—Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal (starred review)
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PRAISE FOR TESTIMONY:
"Shreve, consummate craftsman and frequent provocateur, is on fire in her latest novel, a mesmerizing read centering on a sex scandal at a prestigious Vermont prep school....Shreve views all of the characters, even the most flawed, with a good deal of compassion, revealing the heartbreaking consequences of a single reckless act."—Joanne Wilkinson, Booklist (starred review)
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Details
- Author
- Anita Shreve
- Narrator
- Robert Petkoff, Eve Bianco, Ellen Archer
- Duration
- 8 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 October 2008
- ISBN
- 9781600244056
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Interior life
Synopsis
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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