The Sound Inside

De: Adam Rapp

Narrado por: Mary-Louise Parker, Will Hochman

Tony®, Golden Globe, and Emmy® Award winner Mary-Louise Parker stars in what ​The New York Times​ calls “a gripping mystery” about Bella Baird, a​ ​novelist and Ivy League English professor who prizes her solitude. When faced with a challenge she cannot tackle alone,​ Bella must ally herself with a brilliant but mysterious student (William Hochman) and confront the question of what one person can truly do for another. Intensely intimate and deeply moving, Adam Rapp’s haunting play received resounding acclaim during its Broadway run at ​Studio​ 54 and was nominated for six Tony Awards​. ​Now available only on Au​dible, The Sound Inside is a “vital, compassionate and rivetingly theatrical drama about tragedy and redemption, sacrifice and loss, the bright blaze of artistic creation and the sadness of an unknowable stranger” (​The Hollywood Reporter)​.

Directed by David Cromer.
Music by Daniel Kluger by arrangement with peermusic

Portions of this audiobook contain mature language and themes. Listener discretion is advised.

©2019 Adam Rapp (P)2021 AO Media LLC

Shockingly captivating

I loved it, not at all expected...but there is the ache in my chest that is familiar after a really good book.

Beautiful

Do yourself a favor. Get comfortable for an hour and a half. Loose yourself.

Amazing performance. I'll always cherish the 90 minutes.

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Unexpected, Thought-provoking, and Infinitely Personalizable

I had no idea what to expect and was intrigued by the idea of insight into a professional singleton.

The performance is engrossing and the characters both real and gauzy.

A delightful distraction that will have you reflecting and thinking for some time.

Truly original Tragicomedy

This is a really unique novella - I never use that word to describe anything except fingerprints. My review wouldn’t do it justice. Just see and listen for yourself

Brilliant

I loved every moment of this book. The professor sounds a bit unconcerned about her ailment when she meets.... But its easily not the point of the story.

Stopped everything I was doing...

...and just became immersed. Beautifully written, beautifully narrated. A story that stays with you. Good god need 15 words,enough now?!

What a nice surprise!

This novella was good! I really enjoyed listening to it- the storyline was very interesting. Wish it was longer!

A book within a book. A mystery within a mystery.

It pulled me in right away. Slightly quirky/unusual read but that totally made the experience better. The shift of narrator was an unusual tactic for this plot, but it made the experience. A book within a book. A mystery within a mystery.

UNDELIVERABLE...

Amazing, what a story. What an ending. An absolute must listen.

Face down in the snow...

This Story Pissed Me Off.

The Christopher character is so redolent of the appalling level of UTTER INDULGENCE Young Straight White Males enjoy EVERY DAY in this country at Ivy League universities across this nation. It was difficult to get past the initial introductory scene of his meeting with the Professor who narrates the story. I won’t say what he does at that meeting, but suffice it to say I can not IMAGINE an African-American male student doing the same thing- with NO DISCIPLINARY CONSEQUENCES., Maybe that’s the hidden point. Well written. Well performed. Just another dispatch from a world where people like me don’t exist, or at best are used as plot device props. Baldwin gets mentioned once. Which I appreciated.