| Author: | Anita Shreve |
| Isbn: | 9780316059862 |
| Pub Date: | 2008 |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Co. |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | United States |
Testimony is a 2008 novel by American writer Anita Shreve.[1] [2] [3] The audiobook is narrated by Nick Sullivan.[4] The novel describes an unfolding sex scandal at a Massachusetts prep school.
Testimony tells the story of a sex scandal at a prestigious prep school called Avery Academy in Avery, Massachusetts - a small town with many blue collar workers. This school has a good reputation for sending students to Ivy League schools, but everything changes when this scandal is mishandled and covered up by the administration. The novel switches point-of-view and discusses the incident from multiple perspectives. Some of the most notable include: Mike Bordwin, the headmaster of the school; Rob Leicht, a member of the basketball team with prospects of going to Brown University; Ellen Leicht, Rob's mother; Silas Quinney, a local boy whose mother is having an affair with the school's headmaster; Owen Quinney, a local farmer and Silas's father; Noelle, Silas's girlfriend; James "J. Dot" Robles, a postgraduate basketball player; and Sienna, the only girl involved in the sex scandal; and Geoff Coggeshall, the dean of students who takes over as headmaster after the scandal.
All of these perspectives are mini "interviews" conducted by a journalist at the University of Vermont who is trying to get to the bottom of this incident.[5] [6]