Mara, Marietta: A Love Story in 77 Bedrooms

'What excites you?' a girl asks the hero at a party. 'Art', he replies. Speaking of the heroine, the girl continues: 'And Marietta, what excites her?'. 'Risk', he says. The girl interprets this to mean 'sex'. And she is not mistaken. Indeed, Mara, Marietta is a love story told primarily through art and sex. In a heady cocktail of music, dance, cinema, sex, painting and poetry, the story moves from Princeton to Paris, and from there radiates out around the world. She is a theoretical physici...