Testimony: A Novel
by Anita Shreve
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Author: Anita ShreveEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-21
ISBN: 0316059862
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: Excellent, fast read
Summary: 4 Stars
I remembered that this book was highly publicized a while back, and found it at my local library. I particularly enjoy books whose chapters are each told by a different character, as this one does. Testimony is gripping and engrossing from the first page, and I easily finished it within two or three days. It is about a group of boys who engage in and videotape a sexual encounter with a girl of, shall we say, questionable morals, who claims rape once the tape is released. The boys are popular athletes and the girl is known for her hard-partying ways. Somehow, at different points in each chapter, I was able to feel sorry for each character. Testimony shows how quickly an incident such as this one can easily destroy the lives of an accuser, the accused, and the community as a whole, especially once the media becomes involved. I highly recommend this book.
However, I would NOT wish for this story to in any way diminish the fact that incidents such as the one portrayed here happen on campuses every day, and while there are always two sides or more to every story, there are genuine victims who need to be protected and admired for their courage in reporting these incidents, not slandered and discredited.
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