Test of Faith

By Eva Evelyn Hanks

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551301768
• ISBN13: 9781551301761
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Canadian Scholars Pr
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Tells it like it is

After having lived through a similar experience, I could easily relate to the author's descriptions of shock, disgust and despair at finding oneself in the lowest place you ever imagined. This is a story less about prison and more about discovering the inner strength that comes out of facing life's greatest challenges with determined optimism and tenacity -- to bring good out of even negative experiences. The style is not your average prose - it combines poetic imagery, the dialogue of letter-writing and often lapses into full-on poetry; uses some interesting phrasing. Well worth the read even if not for the subject matter.

Powerful and moving pageturner

This is an amazingly well written book for a first book. The story is compelling told-you will stay with it until the satisfying end. You will cry with W, laugh with W. The book conjures up scenes of real pain and joy, feelings of expectation and great disappointment. It is packed with beautiful insights. It certainly provokes questioning the entire judicial system and makes you realize we should not be so far removed as to think that we could never face a situation like theirs. Excellent book for all students of criminology as well as all young people to make real the consequences of breaking the law. Also perfect book club book-evokes powerful discussion. I can't wait until her next book.