Noah, meanwhile, throws himself into fixing up an old house as soon as he returns home from Europe, working day and night to distract himself from the old pain of missing Allie as well as the new traumas of witnessing so much loss and violence. Allie, who meets Lon while volunteering, retreats into a relationship with him in order to “drve all her fears away” and numb herself to the pain she witnesses. Both Allie and Noah are traumatized by the horrors of war. Noah fights in Europe during the war (and loses his friend Fin to a torpedo while there) while Allie remains stateside and volunteers at a local hospital in Raleigh. The lingering emotional effects of the war, and the Great Depression which preceded it, can be felt throughout the novel. The main action of The Notebook is set in October of 1946-barely a year after the end of World War II. As of 2020, Sparks is rumored to be working on a TV follow-up to the wildly successful film version of The Notebook. The author of over 20 novels (and 11 New York Times bestsellers) including A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, and The Last Song, Sparks’s romantic books have been widely adapted into movies starring Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Miley Cyrus, Richard Gere, and numerous other lauded actors and actresses. The book hit The New York Times Best Seller list in its first week of publication, and Sparks’s career as a lauded writer of romance novels began. Sparks was an undiscovered writer when he sold The Notebook for $1 million advance in 1996. The town of New Bern would become the setting for Sparks’s first novel, The Notebook, which he wrote in his spare time while working in the pharmaceutical industry. Shortly thereafter, the two of them moved to New Bern, North Carolina-a place neither of them had ever been to.
Sparks graduated early after meeting the woman who would become his wife in 1988. After graduating as the valedictorian of Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks, California, Sparks enrolled at the University of Notre Dame. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Nicholas Sparks and his family moved around the United States frequently as his father pursued graduate studies in Minnesota and California.
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