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Room on the Sea
- Narrated by: Jeff Daniels
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-02-22
Just beautiful
Such a beautiful story told with tenderness and humor … it was captivating from the start and while it’s a very short read, it was completely captivating thank you - I loved it!
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- Dreamer
- 23-02-24
brilliant short story
Great story well told.
Having experienced Mon que (spelling?) myself and missed that opportunity, the story resonated with my own experiece and I still wonder 30 years later what might have happened.
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- ecojanie
- 29-05-23
Thoroughly enjoyable
Short listen love story, a love found by chance in later life. Sit back enjoy
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- Chrissie P.
- 14-04-24
excellently read
I liked that the story did not go on further because it may have all unravelled, & i did not want that.
very well written, intriguingly written, & beautifully read
highly recommended
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- Nigel
- 02-02-22
a good listen
this book is great for those of us who are getting older gentle and looking at how things could have been but it's never to late
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- Anonymous User
- 02-07-22
A perfectly written story about love in later life
A very enjoyable and relateable story. Would definitely recommend, especially if you are in the 'older' age bracket! Very tender and insightful.
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- JACQUI
- 10-04-22
wow
Worth listenind. Its short..
The story provocates deep thought about what is partnership.. etc etc..
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- Franco Guerriero
- 22-08-24
Boring middle age crisis
The relentless idea that happiness comes from outside is a common belief that make us all unhappy automatically. We think partners are the answers to our search for fulfilment, but it’s an illusion. And from this point of view I find this novel boring and cliche, we dispose of people as if they were objects that made us happy one moment in time, but then, like with an car or dress we start to become bored to the point of thinking to change them for a new one, a different one, so we think, and then we repeat it till we die. Love is within us, only when we share it we receive it. We are not a body, a story a title, go beyond that and see the light we are.
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- Kindle Customer
- 12-02-22
Not a good narrative
The plot and story was okay, but I didn't like the narrative. I couldn't finish it.
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