Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. Now, with the storm closing in, two wounded people will turn to each other for comfort - and in one weekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout the rest of their lives. At fifty-four, Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe to escape his own shattered past. But when a major storm starts moving in, it appears that Adrienne’s perfect getaway will be ruined - until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite, she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina to tend to a friend’s inn for the weekend. At forty-five, Adrienne Willis must rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for a younger woman.
The Bridges of Madison County are more likely to hurt this title than help it, but Sparks has a proven track record, and major television and print advertising and a 25-city author tour should inflate sales. Sparks builds a taut, plausible relationship between his protagonists, but even fans may be irked by the obviousness of their story and the inevitability of their fate. Paul Flanner, her paramour, is a surgeon and an obsessive workaholic with no genuine connection to his wife or son, whose world completely falls apart when one of his patients inexplicably dies. This rejection colors her entire life, and Sparks realistically portrays a vulnerable and isolated woman who throws herself into raising her children to escape her despair. At the time, Adrienne was an uptight matron whose ex-husband had just left her for a younger woman.
To help her troubled daughter cope with the untimely recent death of her husband, Adrienne tells her the tale of her love affair, which took place 15 years before. As the story begins, Adrienne Willis is 60, the divorced mother of three grown children. Once again, a housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in a brief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her life forever. The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe much to Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. Sparks ( A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on the winding high road of romance with the story of two middle-aged people who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal town of Rodanthe.
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