Allie’s conflicting thoughts about leaving the past behind reflect accurately the sentiments with which many Americans struggled in the wake of World War II. When Noah and Allie reconnect in New Bern, Allie marvels at how strong Noah seems compared to the men “destroyed by war” she’s seen over the last several years-yet in spite of her observation that the world is “rushing forward leaving behind the horrors of war,” Allie senses that forgetting the past too quickly, in spite of the sadness or “horrors” it might hold, is a dual-edged sword. Noah, meanwhile, throws himself into fixing up an old house as soon as he returns home from Europe, working day and night to distract himself from the old pain of missing Allie as well as the new traumas of witnessing so much loss and violence. Allie, who meets Lon while volunteering, retreats into a relationship with him in order to “drve all her fears away” and numb herself to the pain she witnesses. Both Allie and Noah are traumatized by the horrors of war. Noah fights in Europe during the war (and loses his friend Fin to a torpedo while there) while Allie remains stateside and volunteers at a local hospital in Raleigh. The lingering emotional effects of the war, and the Great Depression which preceded it, can be felt throughout the novel. The main action of The Notebook is set in October of 1946-barely a year after the end of World War II. As of 2020, Sparks is rumored to be working on a TV follow-up to the wildly successful film version of The Notebook. The author of over 20 novels (and 11 New York Times bestsellers) including A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, and The Last Song, Sparks’s romantic books have been widely adapted into movies starring Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Miley Cyrus, Richard Gere, and numerous other lauded actors and actresses. The book hit The New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of publication, and Sparks’s career as a lauded writer of romance novels began. Sparks was an undiscovered writer when he sold The Notebook for $1 million advance in 1996. The town of New Bern would become the setting for Sparks’s first novel, The Notebook, which he wrote in his spare time while working in the pharmaceutical industry. Shortly thereafter, the two of them moved to New Bern, North Carolina-a place neither of them had ever been to. Sparks graduated early after meeting the woman who would become his wife in 1988. After graduating as the valedictorian of Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks, California, Sparks enrolled at the University of Notre Dame. Eleven of his novels have been adapted into major films - The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven, The Lucky One, The Last Song, Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook and The Choice.Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Nicholas Sparks and his family moved around the United States frequently as his father pursued graduate studies in Minnesota and California. All Nicholas Sparks' books have been international bestsellers and have been translated into more than fifty languages. His novels include thirteen number one New York Times bestsellers. Biography: With over 105 million copies of his books sold, Nicholas Sparks is one of the world's most beloved storytellers.'This one won't leave a dry eye' Daily Mirror 'A fiercely romantic and touching tale' Heat The Notebook is the love story to end all love stories - it will break your heart, heal it back up and break it all over again. Only this time, it's not just her parents in the way - Allie is engaged and she's not a woman to go back on her promises. When Allie Hamilton shows up on his doorstep, exactly as he has held her in his memory for all these years, Noah has one last chance to win her back. A girl who stole his heart at the funfair, whose parents didn't approve, a girl he wrote to every day for a year. Noah Calhoun has returned from war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, he sets his mind and his body to restoring an old plantation home to its former beauty.īut he is haunted by memories of the beautiful girl he met there years before. Once again, just as I do every day, I begin to read the notebook aloud. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo Celebrating 25 years of The Notebook - the classic novel which became the heart-wrenching film.
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