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The Notebook
- 244 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1996
- 53 editions
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1 About this book
In a nursing home, an old man opens a worn notebook and reads aloud to a woman who lives there. The story he reads begins in 1946 in coastal North Carolina. Noah Calhoun, thirty-one and back from the war, is restoring an old plantation house and has never forgotten the girl with whom he spent one summer fourteen years earlier. Then, unexpectedly, she comes back to his town to see him once more. The Notebook, published in 1996, was Nicholas Sparks's first novel.
- Relationships
- Romance
- Romance, historical
- Older people
- North carolina
2 What to expect
A short romance in two time frames: an old man in a nursing home reads aloud the story of two young people in 1940s North Carolina who meet again fourteen years after one summer together. Lasting love, memory and old age are its themes. It is simple, earnest and openly sentimental, quick to read, and written to move its audience to tears.
Good for readers who want: a sentimental love story, lasting devotion, and a short read to make you cry.
3 About Nicholas Sparks
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Nicholas Sparks
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