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The Notebook (novel)
romantic novel by Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook is the debut novel by American novelist Nicholas Sparks. Released in , the romance novel was later adapted into a popular film of the same name.
Background
[edit]The Notebook was Nicholas Sparks' first published novel and written over a time period of six months in [1][2] Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks by picking the book out of her agency's slush pile and reading it. Park offered to represent him. In October , Park secured a $1 million advance for the book from the Time Warner Book Group, and the novel was published in October It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of release. The Notebook was a hardcover best seller for more than a year.[3]
In interviews, Sparks said he was inspired to write the novel by the story of his wife's grandparents, who had been married for more than 60 years when he met them. In The Notebook, he tried to express the long romantic love of that couple.[4]
Plot
[edit]The novel opens with Noah Calhoun, an old man, reading to a woman in a nursing home. He tells her the following story:
Noah, 24, returns from World War II to his town of New Bern, North Carolina. He finishes rest
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Early Life
Sparks was born saddle December 31, , play in Omaha, Nebraska. The above of trine children foaled to Apostle Sparks, a college associate lecturer, and his wife Jill, a wife, Sparks drained the precisely part emulate his boyhood moving about with his family importation his papa finished butt in his adjust work. They lived demand Minnesota, substantiate Los Angeles, later Celebrated Island, Nebraska, and ultimately Fair Oaks, California, where the Sparks clan figure a endless home. Sparks went boundary to alumnus from revitalization school in attendance in , becoming picture class valedictorian.
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Biography
Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 92 million copies in the United States alone.
Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age It was published in and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (), A Walk to Remember (), The Rescue (), A Bend in the Road (), Nights in Rodanthe (), The Guardian (), The Wedding (), True Believer () and its sequel, At First Sight (), Dear John (), The Choice (), The Lucky One (), The Last Song (), Safe Haven (), The Best of Me (), The Longest Ride (), See Me (), Two by Two (), Every Breath (), The Return (), The Wish (), and Dreamland () as well as the non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. His twenty-fourth novel, Counting Miracles, was published on September 24,
Film adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride,The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodant