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The notebook [electronic resource] / Nicholas Sparks.
In a Southern nursing home, an 80-year-old man reads from his diary to his wife, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's the story of their teenage romance, followed by years of separation because he was from the wrong class, followed by her decision, on his return from World War II, to be her own woman and marry him.
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- ISBN: 9780446930642 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0446930644 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- Physical Description: 150 p.
- Edition: 1st ebook ed.
- Publisher: New York : Warner Books, 1999.
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| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2000. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 267 KB). |
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| Subject: | Oral reading > Fiction. Older people > Fiction. North Carolina > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Romance fiction. Electronic books. |
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- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1996 June
Sparks, who coauthored the self-help parable Wokini (Random, 1994), weighs in with a romantic novel that will receive a substantial marketing push. Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1996 August
Here is a first novel that many people are banking on: the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club are featuring it as a main selection and film, foreign, and serial rights are already sold. At 80, Noah Calhoun reads daily from a notebook containing the love story of Noah and Allie. We learn of the teenaged lovers, their 14-year separation and reunion in New Bern, North Carolina, just weeks before Allie is to marry another man. Back in the present, we learn that Noah and Allie did marry and were happy for more than 40 years. Now, they are residents of a nursing home, separated both by rooms and, more profoundly, by Allie's Alzheimer's. Noah's daily reading from the notebook is not to himself; he reads aloud to Allie, hoping that the power of their love story will reach her. Noah's coping mechanisms as an old man are exceptional, and the novel's format, focusing just on the dual beginnings of their love story and its denouement, is intriguing. This is a more romantic testament to love's enduring miracle than Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County (LJ 3/1/92) because the Calhouns chose the rigors of daily domestic life over a dream of four days. For all popular collections. [Previewed in Preppub Alert, LJ 6/15/96.] Rebecca S. Kelm, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights Copyright 1998 Library Journal Reviews