The Notebook - Softcover

Sparks, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1455582875 ISBN 13: 9781455582877

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 1900

Synopsis

Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart -- one of PBS's "Great American Reads".

Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story-it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again...

At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle...

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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

"A classic tale of love."--Christian Science Monitor

"A one-night read . . . If you are in need of a good cry, The Notebook is absolutely the right book."--USA Today

"The lyrical beauty of this touching love story . . . will captivate the heart of every reader."--Denver Rocky Mountain News

"A more romantic testament to love's enduring miracle than Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County."--Library Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 1455582875
• ISBN 13: 9781455582877
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272