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Mariana

By: André Aciman
Narrated by: Mamie Gummer
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A hot-blooded new story written by the New York Times best-selling author of Call Me By Your Name and performed by Mamie Gummer (The Good Wife, True Detective).

Mariana has just arrived at the Academy in Italy, where she will spend the next few months on fellowship. That night, over dinner with the other fellows, she meets Itamar. He is handsome and charismatic, and a known Lothario. Although she is aware that an affair with this man may not end well for her, Mariana finds herself falling for Itamar nonetheless. When he abruptly leaves her, Mariana is unmoored. Intent on not giving Itamar the satisfaction of knowing he has destroyed her, Mariana must present a cool façade, until a chance encounter with him in public threatens to leave her completely undone.

By turns incisive and scathing, Mariana is at once a keen psychological portrait and a gripping story of a scorned lover’s descent into despair and rage.

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About the Creator

André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar. He is the New York Times best-selling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me as well as of Out of Egypt and Eight White Nights, Harvard Square, False Papers, and Alibis. Homo Irrealis, his latest collection of essays, will appear in January 2021. Audible will soon release his novellas The Gentleman from Peru and Mariana. Aciman is the director of The Writers’ Institute and teaches Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler, as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays.

About the Perfomer

Gummer recently shot a role on the upcoming HBO MAX series DMZ from Ava DuVernay, opposite Rosario Dawson. She can be seen in season 3 of HBO’s True Detective opposite Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo and Scoot McNairy. Next up, she can be seen recurring in the Nat-Geo series The Right Stuff produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Previously, she starred in the Amazon UK and BBC Worldwide 8-part series The Collection in which she plays Helen, the wife and supporter of an influential Paris couturier in the 1940s. Additionally, the actress starred as the lead of the CW’s Emily Owens, M.D. and recurred on WGN’s hit series Manhattan as well as CBS’ The Good Wife. Mamie appeared in Sony’s Ricki and the Flash opposite Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. She also starred in James Ponsoldt’s End of the Tour opposite Jason Segel and Cake opposite Jennifer Aniston.
In 2005, Gummer made her off-Broadway debut with the premiere of Mr. Marmalade, in which she won a Theatre World Award. Her theater credits continue including The Classic Stage Company’s Uncle Vanya (Lucille Lortel Nomination) and The School for Lies, The Water’s Edge (Lucille Lortel Nomination) for The Second Stage, and the Tony Award-nominated revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Gummer additionally received rave reviews for her performance of Jess alongside Chris Stack in the Roundabout Theatre’s performance of Ugly Lies the Bone. Most recently, she starred in the Geffen Playhouse’s Our Very Own Carlin McCullough, written by Amanda Peet and also starring Joe Tippett.

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Wow. An intense look into a broken heart. Not my normal listen as I like the HEA, but this story is so gut wrenching and beautifully written showing the inner workings of a traumatized mind after a bad breakup.

sad and depressing

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Short and sweet. Monsieur Aciman sure knows the emotions ppl can feel. Im not sure if I love it or liked it but I know im happy I got to read it.

Short and sweet

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That one guy. That one truly torturous and awful and wonderful obsession. Thank god is passes

It reminded me of

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I kept waiting for something to happen. The narrator was fine but the story was boring. It was a lot of inner musings and dialogue that never quite crystallized into an interesting plot.

Boring.

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She was whiny and annoying and the story went nowhere, there was no purpose here at all

And?

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MS Bummer does an excellent job with the material. I never knew one could express dislike longing of unrequited love, boring.

Don't waste your time.

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I kept waiting for the plot? The story of her? Heck maybe even the backstory of him!! Monotonous.
Not a fan but , considering what she was given the performance was ok.

Enough Already!

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It was a one woman play about her obsession with a man who doesn't have the same obsession for her. The performance was well done. It is not what I usually listen to, but I was between books and decided to listen to an "included" book. It was an easy and short listen.

Mariana

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I found this story to be depressing, and think it's a very male-oriented wishful thinking tale of a woman's obsession. Mamie Gummer is great, and I'd listen to her again. But she's the only reason I finished this story.

At least the narration is great.

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Basic story about lost love. I kept waiting for the twist or hook....and got nothing.

Whining lost love story

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