When he recovers, he goes to visit Allie late at night, as he is staying in the same care home. Later, Noah has a stroke and cannot visit Allie. The nurses have to come in and sedate her. She begins to panic and hallucinate, and forgets who Noah is again. They embrace and talk, but after almost four hours, Allie fades. Recognizing her husband, she tells him that she loves him. Referring to the story, she can't quite remember who Allie chose. They walk together and Allie, although she does not recognize him, says she might feel something for him. He had changed the names in the story to protect her, but he is Noah and she is Allie. He resumes reading the story and describing their life together: her career as a noted painter, their children, growing old together, and finally the diagnosis of Alzheimer's. Throughout the story he explains he is also ill, battling a third cancer, and suffering heart disease, kidney failure, and severe arthritis in his hands. The man stops reading the story at this point, and implies to the audience that he is reading to his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and does not recognize him. At the hotel, her fiancé Lon is waiting in the lobby. She cries all the way back to the hotel and starts reading the letters her mother returned to her. Noah begs her to stay with him, but she decides to leave. She knows she loves Noah, but she does not want to hurt Lon. When her mother leaves, Allie is torn and has a decision to make. Noah and Allie share a kiss and make love.Īllie's mother shows up the next morning and gives Allie the letters from Noah. When they return to his house, they talk again about how important they were to each other, and how their feelings have not changed. On their way back, they are caught in a storm and end up soaked. The next day, Noah takes Allie on a canoe ride in a small lake where swans and geese swim. When Allie does not respond to his calls, he begins to worry. During this time, her fiancé, Lon, tries to reach her at the hotel. At the end of the night, Noah invites Allie to come back the next day and promises her a surprise. They talk about what could have happened between them without her mother's interference. She realizes that her mother hid the letters so that Allie could never receive them and would conclude that Noah had forgotten about her. Allie learns that Noah had written letters to her for one year after their breakup. They have dinner together and talk about their lives and the past. Seeing each other brings on a flood of memories and strong emotions in both of them. They were separated by class, as she was the daughter of a wealthy family, and he worked as a laborer in a lumberyard. They are meeting, again, after a 7-year separation, which followed their brief but passionate summer romance when her family was visiting the town. Meanwhile, Allie, 24, sees the house in the newspaper and decides to pay him a visit. He finishes restoring an antebellum-style house, after his father's death. Noah, 24, returns from World War II to his town of New Bern, North Carolina. The novel opens with Noah Calhoun, an old man, reading to a woman in a nursing home. In The Notebook, he tried to express the long romantic love of that couple. 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. The Notebook was a hardcover best seller for more than a year. It was on The New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of release. In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for the book from the Time Warner Book Group, and the novel was published in October 1996. Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks by picking the book out of her agency's slush pile and reading it. The Notebook was Nicholas Sparks first published novel and written over a time period of six months in 1994. Released in 1996, the romance novel was later adapted into a popular 2004 film of the same name. The Notebook is the debut novel by American novelist Nicholas Sparks.
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