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A Walk to Remember
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A Walk to Remember is a 1999 novel by bestselling American romance writer Nicholas Sparks. It was adapted into a movie in 2002. The novel, set in 1958 in the coastal North Carolina town of Beaufort, builds on the brand Sparks established in his earlier bestselling 1996 novel, The Notebook, which is a historical romance set in a North Carolina coastal town during the 1940s. This North Carolina setting is also a locale of subsequent works, such as Nights in Rodanthe (2002). A common theme of Sparks’s novels seen in A Walk to Remember is the juxtaposition of two time periods, the present and the past, in which an older person remembers a long-ago love. Sparks is also known for the popular romances The Notebook (1996), Dear John (2006), and The Longest Ride (2012), among others.
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In 1999, the narrator, 57-year-old Landon Carter reflects on the fall of 1958, when he was 17. Directly addressing the reader, he promises that he will deliver the story of that fate-changing year.
In the fall of his senior year of high school, affluent Landon Carter is popular but uncertain of his purpose in life.
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