This is a hardcover book, Testimony by Anita Shreve. It is a 2008 First Edition from Little, Brown and Company. USA Today called this novel, "A thoughtful, tightly woven meditation on marriage and morality, family devotion and dysfunction, with subtle, skillful segues into class and religion." I include that quote here because I think it's an excellent characterization of the book. The story is intense, the story-telling is riveting. Folks, when I tell you I could not put this one down... Anyway, here's a synopsis from the publisher:
"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."
Book shows only a little mild wear, there is no writing in it and there are no tears to the dust jacket; inside the front there is a partial sticker of some kind, which I didn't try to finish peeling off because I didn't want to tear the paper. Pages are all clean and binding is tight. Asking $4.00 obo. Everything I have listed for sale is "or best offer", so feel free to make an offer.
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