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Room on the Sea

By: André Aciman
Narrated by: Jeff Daniels
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Paul was reading a newspaper. Catherine was reading a novel. So begins Room on the Sea, André Aciman's scorching and elegiac love-story about a middle-aged man and woman who meet in the bullpen of jury selection and spend a sultry summer’s week trespassing ever further into each other's hearts.

What begins as a flirtation quickly evolves into something deeper, something Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret - and with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question. But as the week draws to a close, the end of their rendezvous comes into focus, and Paul and Catherine are forced to decide whether to act on their feelings or leave the fantasy of what could have been to the annals of the past.

By turns scintillating and philosophical, Room on the Sea is a compulsively listenable story of love, fate, and last chances.

©2021 André Aciman (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC.
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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 Performer

Daniels is a five-time Emmy nominee, winning in Best Lead Actor for The Newsroom and Best Supporting Actor for Godless. He has also received Golden Globe nominations on the big screen for his performances in The Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild, and The Squid and the Whale, as well as one for The Newsroom. Daniels is also a three-time individual Screen Actors Guild Award nominee. His other major screen roles include the Dumb and Dumber franchise, The Martian, Looper, Good Night and Good Luck, Gods and Generals, The Hours, Pleasantville, Gettysburg, Radio Days, Terms of Endearment, and Ragtime. Daniels is also a three-time Tony nominee, for To Kill a Mockingbird (the highest grossing American play in Broadway history), Blackbird, and God of Carnage. Most recently, Daniels was seen as former FBI director James Comey in The Comey Rule, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. He also starred in the Showtime drama American Rust and just reprised his role as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird’s run on Broadway.
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Beautiful Writing • Engaging Dialogue • Compelling Characters • Charming Love Story • Smooth Voice • Heartwarming Tone
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Something about this story struck a chord with me. Maybe because I’m at a certain age where I long for an experience such as this. I want to know what happens next…

Sweet. Touching. Relatable.

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A lovely story of imaginary thinking. Jeff Daniel's gentle voice sweetens each line taking away the need for more.

Worth the Read

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The story is wonderful and I want to know more about these people! They were so real, intelligent and interesting. Jeff Daniels was perfect. I hate it when a man tries to ‘read’ in a female voice. He didn’t do that and it was much more enjoyable to listen to. Bravo!

Excellent !

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There is a nice romance buried beneath mountains of rambling dialogue. Good narration, although no attempt made to differentiate male/female character voices.

Very wordy

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This book was good but I left wanting more from the author. Enjoyed the narration by Jeff Daniels.
Good beach read, train ride, or just relaxing read when you have 2 hours to kill.

Short and entertaining read

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Beautifully written and performed in such a low key way, the narrator never intruding. Perfect approach. Loved every minute.

Outstanding

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The story was well written and performed. All the small choices we make every day, leads to the leap of infidelity. This was personally insightful, as my father was a “cheater” and I never really understood the appeal. Now I know an accumulation of intentional actions, allow for the leap. Enjoy!

Little choices to make the leap

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I loved it. It is a great story for
baby boomers, or anyone over 50💖💖

wonderful romance

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What a charming & sweet love story. Jeff Daniels as narrator infused it with a simple tenderness that I really enjoyed.

Wow!

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This was a nice story but Jeff Daniels voice was like nails on a chalk board.

Nice Story but

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