Mark Twain wrote: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Testimony
by Anita Shreve

Category:  Human Relations

Average Rating:  4.0

Three drunken senior basketball players at a private Vermont high school are videotaped engaging in sexual acts with a willing fourteen-year-old girl. The incident affects the students' lives and the lives of their families and friends--culminating in tragedy.

Jeff

[2026-02-27 23:58:02]

Rating:  4

This story is very good at hooking the listener right from the beginning, but then, keeping the listener in a perpetual state of bewilderment right up to the very end. Details are doled out in bits and pieces, jummping from person to person and from time to time. Each switch of perspective is identified by the name of the person, but the chronology of that person's perspective is not always clear. Hang in there, though, in the end, all is revealed.

Elisabeth Rodgers does an excellent job of giving each character an appropriate voice. Her narration is quite acceptable. This story is all too realistic and I recommend it to anyone looking for a good, character-driven story.