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. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and. 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.

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. 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 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. 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. 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. (Oct.Shop Barnes & Noble The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks online at. Major ad/promo first serial to Good Housekeeping movie rights to New Line Cinema Warner Audio Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections. Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers-be they cynics or romantics. Early on, Noah claims that theirs may be either a tragedy or a love story, depending on the perspective. The first sets the stage for the reading of the eponymous notebook, while the later one takes the characters into the land beyond happily ever after, a future rarely examined in books of this nature. What renders Sparks's (Wokini: A Lakota Journey of Happiness and Self-Understanding) sentimental story somewhat distinctive are two chapters, which take place in a nursing home in the '90s, that frame the central story. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? The book's slim dimensions and cliche-ridden prose will make comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County inevitable. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah's restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Allie, programmed by family and the ''caste system of the South'' to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money.

Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love.

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