TESTIMONY: A GIVEAWAY FOR YOU!

GIVEAWAY
TESTIMONY
BY ANITA SHREVE

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A sex scandal at a New England boarding school unleashes a storm of shame and recrimination throughout the small community. A chorus of voices--those of the men, women, and teenagers involved--details the events of that night and their aftermath. Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve brings us a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the impulses that drive ordinary people into intolerable dilemmas, or the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

ANITA SHREVE began writing fiction while working as a high school teacher. Although one of her first published stories, "Past the Island, Drifting," was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1975, Shreve felt she couldn't make a living as a fiction writer so she became a journalist. She traveled to Africa, and spent three years in Kenya, writing articles that appeared in magazines such as Quest, US, and Newsweek. Back in the United States, she turned to raising her children and writing freelance articles for magazines. Shreve later expanded two of these articles — both published in the New York Times Magazine — into the nonfiction books Remaking Motherhood and Women Together, Women Alone. At the same time Shreve also began working on her first novel, Eden Close. With its publication in 1989, she gave up journalism for writing fiction full time, thrilled, as she says, with "the rush of freedom that I could make it up."

Since Eden Close Anita Shreve has written eleven other novels: Strange Fits of Passion, Where or When, Resistance, The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, Fortune's Rocks, The Last Time They Met, Sea Glass, All He Ever Wanted, Light on Snow, A Wedding in December and, most recently, Body Surfing. In 1998 Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:

Back in October of 2008, Anita Shreve's novel, TESTIMONY, was published. It is the bestseller about a scandal at an exclusive private school that unleashes a storm of shame and recrimination throughout the small community.

TESTIMONY that has been widely praised as one of Shreve's most compulsively readable works of fiction is just out this week in the mass market paperback edition, and I get to offer my followers a chance at a 5-copy giveaway.

Cosmopolitan's John Searles recommended Anita Shreve's TESTIMONY on the Weekend Today Show "Great Fall Books" segment, saying that it has a narrative pace of a thriller "that would shock even the folks over at Gossip Girl."

"Shreve arrows in on many targets…as she flawlessly weaves a tale that is mesmerizing, hypnotic, and compulsive. No one walks away unscathed, and that includes the reader." —Library Journal (STARRED review) "Shreve's novels benefit from propulsive plots, and [TESTIMONY] does not lack in this regard. Her character delineation is astute and the novel's moral questions…are salient. The novel is clever." —Publishers Weekly

GIVEAWAY

THANKS TO BRIANNE AND MY FRIENDS
AT THE HACHETTE BOOK GROUP,
I HAVE FIVE COPIES OF THIS
EXCITING CLASSIC MYSTERY
TO GIVE AWAY!

THE RULES:

--U.S. AND CANADIAN RESIDENTS ONLY
--NO P. O. BOXES, PLEASE
--INCLUDE EMAIL ADDRESS IN COMMENT
--ALL ENTRIES/COMMENTS MUST BE
SEPARATE IN ORDER TO COUNT
AS MORE THAN ONE ENTRY


HOW TO ENTER

+1 ENTRY: COMMENT ON WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT TESTIMONY FROM WHAT YOU READ ABOVE AND WHY YOU WOULD LIKE TO WIN A COPY.

+1 MORE ENTRY: BLOG OR TWEET ABOUT THIS GIVEAWAY AND COME BACK AND LEAVE A LINK

+1 MORE ENTRY: GO TO THE ANITA SHREVE WEBSITE HERE WHERE YOU CAN LOOK AROUND AND THEN COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU FIND INTERESTING LIKE ONE OF HER BOOKS YOU HAVE READ OR ONE YOU MIGHT WANT TO READ.

GIVEAWAY ENDS AT
6 PM, EST, SEPTEMBER 19!

GOOD LUCK!