The Notebook - Softcover

Sparks, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553504894 ISBN 13: 9780553504897

Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), 1998

Synopsis

This heartrending story of two star-crossed lovers is narrated through the voice of an old man reading aloud to an aging woman who no longer remembers that the story is in fact their own past.

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: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0553504894
• ISBN 13: 9780553504897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224