Testimony

Description:

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 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.

subjects: Scandals,  Teenage girls,  Sex scandals in fiction,  Social life and customs,  Sex scandals,  Sex,  Fiction,  Boarding schools,  Social classes,  Teenage girls in fiction,  Ethics,  Boarding schools in fiction,  Scandals in fiction,  Fiction, coming of age,  Vermont, fiction,  Fiction, suspense,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2008-11-09,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, thrillers, suspense

Places: New England,  Vermont