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Diane Lane
From New York Times best-selling author Curtis Sittenfeld, a sharp-witted and utterly entertaining audio about the most complicated and compromising partnership there is—marriage.
Academy Award nominee Diane Lane narrates this tale about a Hollywood power broker who travels to Alabama to convince a reluctant author that the studio’s treatment of his best-selling book would make the perfect blockbuster romantic comedy.
What Heather Thiesen knows about marriage is that hers is sputtering, anything but romantic, and utterly exhausting. It’s her job to iron out the details of movie deals with people like Brock Lewis, the self-published and conservative author of Atomic Marriage, even if his preachy rules for a happy, thriving marriage make her want to go back to bed. Harried and married, with a young child at home, she can barely get through the book’s 12-point Atomic Doctrine, let alone follow its advice. Make eye contact with your spouse? Always! Use the bathroom in front of them? Never!
But then she meets Brock. And to her surprise, she likes him—a lot.
Curtis Sittenfeld is one of America’s funniest and most astute cultural commentators. Diane Lane is one of our best leading actresses, sharing Heather’s perspective with depth, candor, and warmth. Together they deliver a remarkable story about the life partners we choose, the secrets we keep, and the compromises we make—or break.
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About the Author
Curtis Sittenfeld is the best-selling author of the story collection You Think It, I’ll Say It and the novels Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, and Sisterland, which have been translated into 25 languages. Her nonfiction has been published widely, including in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Glamour, and broadcast on public radio's This American Life. A native of Cincinnati, she currently lives with her family in St. Louis.

About the Performer
Diane Lane’s acting career began at New York City's La MaMa experimental theatre at the age of six, performing in Off-Broadway productions of Chekhov and Greek tragedy before making her movie debut opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in A Little Romance. More film roles followed, but it was her portrayal of a cheating wife in Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful that brought her the most critical acclaim. In addition to winning Best Actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics, Lane was nominated for an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe.
Her impressive list of credits and co-stars include Under the Tuscan Sun, directed by Audrey Wells and based on the novel by Frances Mayes, Nights in Rodanthe with Richard Gere, Must Love Dogs with John Cusack, A Perfect Storm with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, and A Walk on the Moon opposite Viggo Mortensen and Liev Schreiber. She received an Emmy nomination for her work in the CBS mini-series Lonesome Dove and Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild nominations for her role as Pat Loud in the HBO movie, Cinema Verite.
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Ended way to soon!
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Cute story
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Good listen, but generally not earth moving
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The narrator was great. Is a good short story.
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uhm....
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Absolute drivel
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A troubling window to society.
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It is entertaining for a quick listen
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Why is this book so damn short?
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