The Best of Me (Movie Tie-In)
Readers rate it 3.5 (63 on Hardcover)
336 pages · Released Aug 26, 2014 · Grand Central Publishing
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This is a contemporary adult romance novel by Nicholas Sparks centered on rekindled first love and regret, featuring mature themes including infidelity, emotional trauma, and difficult life choices. The story involves themes of loss, difficult family circumstances, and complex relationships that are better suited to older teens and adults. While not graphically explicit, the emotional intensity and relationship dynamics are geared toward a mature audience.
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In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a... In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply, irrevocably in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for one another seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths. Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda and Dawson are summoned back to Oriental for the funeral of Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who once gave shelter to their high school romance. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. As Amanda and Dawson carry out the instructions Tuck left behind for them, they realize that everything they thought they knew -- about Tuck, about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear -- was not as it seemed. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers will discover undeniable truths about the choices they have made. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?
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- New York Times bestseller
- First loves
- Fiction
- nyt:hardcover_fiction=2012-02-18
- Man-woman relationships
- Middle-aged persons
- Fiction, romance, contemporary
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- North carolina, fiction
- City and town life
- Man-woman relationship
- Middle aged persons
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ISBN 9781455556557 · Grand Central Publishing