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- Mass Market Paperback: 240
pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.73 x 6.80 x 4.27
- Publisher: Warner Books;
(September 2000)
- ISBN: 0446608955
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Description
The bestselling author of Message in
a Bottle and The Notebook returns with a deeply
moving tale of first love and its transformational powers.
"When I was seventeen, my life changed forever"...
So begins Nicholas Sparks' touching tale of Landon Carter, a
teenage boy living in the small town of Beaufort, North
Carolina in the late 1950s.
Landon is a
typical teenager who just wants to have a fun senior year
before heading off to college. The last thing he anticipated
is Jamie Sullivan, the sweet, pious daughter of the town's
Baptist minister. But on the evening of Beaufort's annual
Christmas pageant, Landon will undergo a change of heart that
will forever alter the course of his life.
In the
months that follow, Landon discovers truths that it takes most
people a lifetime to learn- truths about the nature of beauty,
the joy of giving, the pain of loss, and, most of all, the
transformational power of love.
Nicholas Sparks' most recent novel, Message in a Bottle
has nearly 700,000 hardcover copies in print and was on the New
York Times hardcover bestseller list for 28 weeks.
The Warner
paperback edition has over 1.5 million copies in print. In
spring 1999, it was released as a major motion picture
starring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn and Paul
Newman.
A New
York Times hardcover bestseller for 56 weeks and a
paperback bestseller for well over a year, Nicholas Sparks'
first novel, The Notebook (1996) has nearly three
million hardcover and paperback copies in print combined.
In the prologue to his latest novel, Nicholas Sparks makes the
rather presumptuous pledge "first you will smile, and then
you will cry," but sure enough, he delivers the
goods.
With his calculated ability to throw
your heart around like a yo-yo (try out his earlier Message
in the Bottle or The Notebook if you really want to
stick it to yourself), Sparks pulls us back to the perfect
innocence of a first love.
In 1958 Landon Carter is a shallow but well-meaning
teenager who spends most of his time hanging out with his
friends and trying hard to ignore the impending responsibilities
of adulthood.
Then Landon gets roped into acting the lead in the
Christmas play opposite the most renowned goody two-shoes in
town: Jamie Sullivan. Against his best intentions and the taunts
of his buddies, Landon finds himself falling for Jamie and
learning some central lessons in life.
Like John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Sparks
maintains a delicate and rarely seen balance of humor and
sentiment. While the plot may not be the most original, this
boy-makes-good tearjerker will certainly reel in the fans. Look
for a movie starring beautiful people or, better yet, snuggle
under the covers with your tissues nearby and let your inner sap
run wild. --Nancy R.E. O'Brien
Synopsis
A poignant tale of first love set in the
1950s introduces seventeen-year-old Landon, who has never payed
much attention to plain Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist minister's
daughter, until fate intervenes and Landon learns the true
nature of beauty, the joy of giving, and the power of love.
Simultaneous.
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