A very sad book about how one stupid moment can change many lives. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read testimony. Anita shreves latest novel, testimony is one of her best. Testimony is a novel by anita shreve first published in 2008. 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. As ever and even though the novel is written from different. At a new england boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Testimony by anita shreve i am immediately turned off by a novel that has each chapter dealing with an individual in the story and refuse to read such a book. Im a big fan of anita shreve, and ive read all of her books. I almost didnt go any further, but later was very glad i picked it up again.
Henry prize in 1975, she worked as a journalist in africa. Most of her novels deal with a woman who falls in love in some life altering waybut testimony is definitely different. Anita shreve is the acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels, including a change in altitude, testimony. Anita shreve books list of books by author anita shreve. Can you see any connection between this style and some of the novels themes. Anitta shreves testimony is another well written book which holds your attention until the end. Anita hale shreve october 7, 1946 march 29, 2018 was an american writer, chiefly known for her novels. Testimony by anita shreve book club discussion questions. Body surfing is a departure in style from shreves other. The author of the book anita shreve is a graduate of b. However, since anita shreve is one of my favorite authors, i decided to make an exception.
Written by anita shreve, audiobook narrated by robert petkoff, eve bianco, ellen archer. A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, anita shreves testimony explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which pdf our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions. Get this book free when you sign up for a 30day trial. Testimony by anita shreve, which will be released on oct. After awhle i couldnt put it down until i finished it. Read testimony a novel by anita shreve available from rakuten kobo. Anita shreve books, ebooks, audiobooks, biography barnes. As does shreve, who paints sienna as a 14yearold vixen with no qualms about pretending shes. The weight of water benefit from propulsive plots, and her mixed latest, with its timely theme of debauchery among children of privilege, does not lack in this.
Although testimony isnt exactly a mystery, its author, anita shreve a novelist so prolific that her consistency verges on the miraculous is a master of suspense. Bestselling author anita shreve takes us into a world upended by the consequences of a single action. But, being an anita shreve novel, the reader understands that this is not to be sydneys happily ever after, certainly not in the middle of the book. 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. What i discovered was that testimony is a story different from shreve s other novels. I breakfasted alone before perusing the hotels book swap, where i cam across testimony by anita shreve. Upmarket schlock mistress anita shreve opens her latest novel with some graphic teenage experimentation. A fastpaced novel with a provocative plot, anita shreves latest book focuses on a tragic scandal at a highstatus private school in vermont. Her work is consistently fresh, intelligent and gripping, and she never fails to be in control of her material, which in this instance concerns a sexual assault case at the.
Other books written by anita are body surfing, all he ever wanted, rescue, testimony and the last time they met among others. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. 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. The novel describes an unfolding sex scandal at a massachusetts prep school. The title of this book is testimony and it was written by anita shreve, hachette assorted authors.
A sense of voyeurism lies at the heart of the story. She turned to writing novels when she returned to the unites states. Her book resistance was turned into a movie with the same name. Testimony you need to get by the first chapter and the sex scene it is integral t o the story, but so unlike anything shreeve has written befire. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is. Testimony by anita shreve books hachette australia. The pilots wife, which was a selection of oprahs book club. A gripping emotional drama with the pace of a thriller, anita shreves testimony explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.
My sister had just left and my mood was a melancholy one. Betrayals, revelations, periods of deeper ungroundednessthese are to be the hapless sydneys fate. What i discovered was that testimony is a story different from shreves other novels. Buy a cheap copy of testimony book by anita shreve. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The only other book of hers i had read was the pilots wife which i loved, but this one was entirely different in the way it was written and the character development. Anita shreve is the acclaimed author of more than fifteen novels, including testimony.
Testimony ebook by anita shreve 9780316040174 rakuten kobo. From the first gripping pages testimony criticizes our lingering appetite for human folly. For a good part of the book, it seems that anita shreves way around this problem is to break the story up into dozens of. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Why do you think anita shreve chose this narrative style for the novel. For a good part of the book, it seems that anita shreves way around this problem is to break the story up into dozens of bitesized portions. The prose of the book is smooth, precise, and without ornamentation. Some characters in testimony for example, the studentsnarrate from the first person point of view. Anita shreve uses a wartime setting to sharpen the themes she has explored in previous novelsand leads us into a harrowing work where forbidden passions have catastrophic consequences. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.
When i saw her newest novel, testimony, in stores i picked it up immediately. Anita shreves narration is simple but not empty of invention. With her latest book due out on november 12, 20, it is already available for preordering and if it is anything like her other novels she can be assured of another huge success. Testimony is my first by anita shreve, and i will definitely be checking out her others. I was impressed with the hard topic anita shreve had taken on within testimony and then how she carried out the story, never wavering from the hardness. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1. Anita shreve, the bestselling novelist who explored how women responded to crises past and present in her native new england in favorites such. Anita shreve is the critically acclaimed author of fourteen novels, including body surfing, the pilots wife, which was a selection of oprahs book club, and the weight of water, which was a finalist for england s orange prize. The story in testimony is told from many different perspectives. She is a writer who combines seemingly effortless prose with. A pandoras box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices those of the men, women, teenagers and parents involved in the. Anita shreve turns the stuff of tabloid sensationalism into a tensely wrought novel about adolescent recklessness and its repercussions.
Testimony by anita shreve book cover, description, publication history. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading testimony. I have not read much anita shreve but this book was wellwritten and a real pageturner. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on.
I met anita shreve at the 2002 national book festival signing in washington, d. I agree, i was bummed there wasnt more on sienna and noelle was my other favorite. An exlibrary book and may have standard library stamps andor stickers. One of her first published stories, past the island, drifting published in 1975, was awarded an o. With her acute eye for behaviour and an exquisite ear for dialogue, shreve explores the actions and reaction that will destroy a community through their alltoohuman desire s express anita shreve is a phenomenon.
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