The Notebook - Softcover

Sparks, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446676098 ISBN 13: 9780446676090

Publisher: Warner Books (NY), 1999

Synopsis

Back in North Carolina after the war, Noah Calhoun cannot stop thinking about the girl he had lost a decade ago, and even though she is on the verge of marriage, she cannot stop thinking about him. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, "there were people making love." Anyway, head elsewhere for Great Literature, but if you're in the market to get your heartstrings plucked, look no further. The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful Allison Nelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to be engaged), or will she hook up with Noah, the romantic rascal she left so many years ago? We're not telling, but you have two guesses and the first one doesn't count. Decades later, after Allison develops Alzheimer's, her beau uses "the notebook" to read her the story of the great love she's plumb forgot. The Notebook--film rights already sold, thank you very much--is a little glazed doughnut of a book: sticky- sweet, satisfying, not much nourishment. But who cares? Take an extra vitamin and indulge.

Review:

"Nicholas Sparks...will not let you go. His novel shines."--Dallas Morning News

"Proves that good things come in small packages...a classic tale of love."--Christian Science Monitor

"The lyrical beauty of this touching love story...will captivate the heart of every reader...and establish Nicholas Sparks as a gifted novelist."--Denver Rocky Mountain News

About this edition

• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0446676098
• ISBN 13: 9780446676090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272