The Best of Me - Softcover

Sparks, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446547646 ISBN 13: 9780446547642

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 2012

Synopsis

In this New York Times bestselling novel of first love and second chances, former high school sweethearts confront the painful truths of their past to build a promising future -- together.

"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."

In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths.

Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?

About this title

Review:

"A beautifully written romance novel that will pull at all the appropriate heartstrings and leave you speechless."--The Guardian

"Sparks's ability to capture the truths of this affair makes the story both heartfelt and heartbreaking. It's quite possibly his best work in years"--Publishers Weekly

Book Description:

The new epic love story by the bestselling author of The Last Song and The Notebook

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0446547646
• ISBN 13: 9780446547642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 297