Marisa Tomei to Narrate Elena Ferrante's 'The Lying Life of Adults' Audiobook

Aug 29, 2020 1114

BY: Lexy Perez

Marisa Tomei is lending her voice for Elena Ferrante's upcoming novel, The Lying Life of Adults. The Academy-Award winning actress is making her debut in the audiobook world with the narration of the novel set to be released on Sept. 1, it was announced Monday. Tomei describes recording Ferrante's audiobook as “very emotional at times." 

"As a devoted fan of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend and Neapolitan novels, I was honored and thrilled to be asked to narrate the audiobook for The Lying Life of Adults," she said. "The recording was very emotional at times — both the director and I cried as we relived the trying, heartbreaking, and exuberant moments from our own girlhood, feelings so specifically captured in Ferrante's otherworldly writing." 

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