![]() She visits Noah in Seabrook and he invites her to dinner, during which Allie tells Noah about her engagement. While trying on her wedding dress in the 1940s, Allie is startled to read about Noah completing the house in the style section of a Raleigh newspaper and faints. While visiting Charleston to file some paper work, Noah witnesses Allie and Lon kissing at a restaurant, causing Noah to go a little crazy, convincing himself that if he fixes up the house, Allie will come back to him. When Noah returns home, he discovers his father has sold their home so that Noah can go ahead and buy The Windsor Plantation. The two eventually become engaged, to the joy of Allie's parents, although Allie sees Noah's face when Lon asks her to marry him. ( James Marsden), a well-connected young lawyer who is handsome, sophisticated, charming and comes from old Southern money. There, she meets the wealthy Lon Hammond, Jr. Allie becomes a nurse for wounded soldiers. Allie continues to attend school, while Noah and Fin enlist to fight in World War II. Noah and Allie have no choice but to move on with their lives. Noah, devastated by his separation from Allie, writes her one letter a day for a year, only to get no reply as Allie's mother keeps the letters from her. The Hamiltons then send Allie to New York, where she begins attending Sarah Lawrence College. ![]() Allie frantically tries to find Noah, but is forced to leave without saying good-bye. The next morning, Allie's mother reveals that they are going home that morning. Allie immediately regrets the decision but Noah drives away. Allie fights with Noah outside and the two decide to break up. When Allie returns home, her disapproving parents ban her from seeing Noah again. They intend to make love for the first time, but are interrupted by Noah's friend Fin ( Kevin Connolly) with the news that Allie's parents have the police out looking for her. Noah tells her that he hopes to buy the house, and Allie makes him promise that the house will be white, with blue shutters, a walk-around porch, and a room that overlooks the creek so she can paint. One night, a week before Allie is to leave town, she and Noah go up to an abandoned house called The Windsor Plantation. Noah and Allie spend an idyllic summer together. She continuously refuses his persistent advances until their well-meaning friends lure them together they then get to know each other on a midnight walk through empty Seabrook. At a carnival in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, local country boy Noah Calhoun ( Ryan Gosling) sees seventeen-year-old heiress Allie Hamilton ( Rachel McAdams) for the first time and is immediately smitten. (Oct.In a modern-day nursing home, an elderly man named Duke ( James Garner) begins to read a love story from his notebook to a female fellow patient ( Gena Rowlands). Major ad/promo first serial to Good Housekeeping movie rights to New Line Cinema Warner Audio Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club main selections. Ultimately, the judgment is up to readers-be they cynics or romantics. Early on, Noah claims that theirs may be either a tragedy or a love story, depending on the perspective. The first sets the stage for the reading of the eponymous notebook, while the later one takes the characters into the land beyond happily ever after, a future rarely examined in books of this nature. What renders Sparks's (Wokini: A Lakota Journey of Happiness and Self-Understanding) sentimental story somewhat distinctive are two chapters, which take place in a nursing home in the '90s, that frame the central story. Will Allie leave Lon for Noah? The book's slim dimensions and cliche-ridden prose will make comparisons to The Bridges of Madison County inevitable. When she reads a newspaper story about Noah's restoration project, she shows up on his porch step, re-entering his life for two days. Allie, programmed by family and the ""caste system of the South"" to marry an ambitious, prosperous man, has become engaged to powerful attorney Lon Hammond. Noah has returned from WWII to restore the house of his dreams, having inherited a large sum of money. Spending one idyllic summer together in the small town of New Bern, Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson do not meet again for 14 years. In 1932, two North Carolina teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love.
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