One Summer Day in Rome
A Novel
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One Summer Day in Rome
Narrateur(s):
Steve West
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Narrateur(s):
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Steve West
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Auteur(s):
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Mark Lamprell
À propos de cet audio
“New York, Paris, London—every grand metropolis—has its own irresistible attraction but Rome so swirls with stories of saints and sinners…lovers and fighters, that she compels you towards her, like gravity…. No one leaves her unaltered. Part of you always loves her. This is the place where passions are aroused, senses inflamed, and lovers fall into each other’s arms. It all appears to unfold like magic but I will tell you what really happens…Come with me, if you will, and observe my labors.”
Mark Lamprell's One Summer Day in Rome is an enchanting audiobook about three couples drawn irresistibly to Rome, narrated by the city itself.
Alice, an art student in New York City, has come to Rome in search of adventure and inspiration before settling down with her steady, safe fiancé. Meg and Alec, busy parents and successful business people from LA, are on a mission to find the holy grail, a certain blue tile that will make their home renovation complete—but soon it becomes clear that their marriage needs a makeover as well. Connie and Lizzie are women of a certain age—“Sometimes I look at my laughter lines and wonder what on earth could have been that funny”—who come from London to scatter the ashes of their beloved husband and brother. Both women are seemingly done with romance, but Rome has other ideas.
Brimming with wit and charm (and gelato), One Summer Day in Rome is the most delicious audiobook you will listen to this summer.
Ce que les critiques en disent
<p>“Absolutely enchanting, an ode to all the semi-magical towns and vibrant cities in the world where fate is decided. Love has many faces—and Mark Lamprell knows them all. This is a book for those willing to travel the road of love from the beginning, across the long middle, to the end, over and over again. (And, by the way: you will discover the secret places of Rome in every chapter!)”<br>—Nina George, author of <i>New York Times </i>bestseller <i>The Little Paris Bookshop</i></p>
Spoilers ahead. You have been warned.
I will talk about the poorly handled ending.
The married couple go from having a rocky relationship, to being thrown way out of their comfort zones. The wife is spoiled and entitled. The husband is ultimately not very helpful.
But near the end, they have a major fight and afterwards he reflects and realizes that there's a deeper part of his wife. Then things start to make sense. Great. Unfortunately around here, he visits a female character from earlier. It is not made clear what they did. But no. When the married couple finally reconcile, the wife suspects that her husband, but she concludes that in order to make their marriage work she should never bring it up. Ah the rest of their marriage is built on dishonesty and deception. What?? I missed this the first time. Edit: Research has made it clear that he did not cheat. I'll have to check.
There is no reason why this event should have happened. Oh how I wish there was a way to alter the endings of movies and novels.
Well, if you like you can pretend that that is the real ending and replace it.
Alec pushes the woman away, mutters something meaningless under his breath, and shuts her own door on her. He runs back down the street in shame, the clouds darken and a thunderstorm rains on him. He decides to rent a room from a shady motel. In the morning it turns out he was robbed. they left his ID but took all the cash out of his wallet. As he gets ready to face his wife and his guilt, realizing that now they are both in the degraded state in need of redemption, he realizes that his passport is. The narrator, which is the spirit of Rome or something, talks about how this is like karma, and that he's orchestrating these events for the sake of rescuing true love. When Alec opens the door, he finds his credit cards. The theives dropped them. (Coincidence? I think not.)
In the other relationship, between the painter and the architect, the painter finally gives her arranged partner call and informs him that she won't be going through with any sort of arranged marriage. She felt that she was forced. (Frankly, she should have done this at the beginning of the book, because in having not, all of her romance is done under the shadow of some sort of moral issue. But we're living with modern values which don't value such things, do they?) In fact, she and Mr architect discuss how she should have made this call a lot earlier, and she feels some sort of remorse. But at the end of it all, she's finally free to follow her true love without baggage. She also goes back to her professor and hands in a terrific narrative essay about how much the trip to Rome has helped her grow. Now back to the married couple's true ending.
When Alec returns, his wife confesses that she's realized how awful of a partner she's been, and the immense danger she had put them in. He confesses that he almost committed an act of infidelity, but left before he did. She yells at him, but asks for the full story, and laughs that his cash was stolen. They realize that it will take weeks for him to get a new passport, and they decide to extend their vacation by 2 weeks and use that time to reconcile everything and heal some of the hurt that they've put each other through in the last decade. He talks to her about what he's realized about her childhood. (Frankly the best written part of the ending, and also the most meaningful, is when Alec considers his wife's upbringing and how it turned her into the kind of person she is now, leading to a scene where he exhibits an immense amount of empathy! Actual character growth, which he then proceeds to not share with his wife at all. In my version, the story doesn't drop the ball and he actually brings it up again.) he tells her that he's starting to understand her. And maybe he tells her that there's no one for her to compete with in their marriage, so she can relax. And he also reiterates that her drive and ideas were a big reason why their company was so successful. Then they go home, reunite with their children and get to finally be a big happy family now that they've earned it. And then they actually live happily ever after, not because they overcame some sort of external problem, but because they faced their own internal issues and worked through them together. They actually went through something, understood each other better, and bonded.
That's a real happy ending. Feel free to come back and read this if the actual ending feels unsatisfactory.
An Okay Story with a Lacking Ending
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