02835cam a2200373 i 4500 532106560 TxAuBib 960226s1996||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96033815 9780446520805 0446520802 (OCoLC)34321554 DLC eng DLC FIT XY4 BAKER IXA BTCTA YDXCP BDX OCLCF TXBXL P4I OCLCQ OCLCO TxAuBib rda Sparks, Nicholas. The notebook / Nicholas Sparks. New York : Warner Books, 1996. 214 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories, until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once more. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Oral reading Fiction. Oral reading. Older people Fiction. Older people. Alzheimer's disease Fiction. Aged Fiction. North Carolina Fiction. North Carolina. Fiction. Love stories. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1414/96033815-b.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0914/96033815-d.html Publisher description