The Best of Me

NICHOLAS SPARKS

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

人人企望無盡的愛存在世上，猶記當年一十有八她亦曾作如是想。

一九八四年春，高中生亞曼達．柯立耶與道森．寇爾兩人深深墜入情網、愛得無法自拔。在這北卡羅萊納州的小鎮中，儘管兩人家世背景涇渭分明，彼此的愛意似乎遠遠超乎現實籓離。然而隨著夏日的到來，高年級的學年生活也隨之告終，一場突如其來的意外卻拆散了這對熱戀中的小情侶，致使兩人步上截然不同的人生道路。

而今，廿五年晃眼即逝，亞曼達．柯立耶與道森兩人因一場喪禮先後回到小鎮。如今兩人的生活皆遠非當年所想，然而相同的是，雙方都忘不了那場痛徹心扉改變命運的初戀。被迫面對過往苦楚，這對昔日戀人卻赫然發現，過去種種、那些關於自身以及彼此所共同擁有的夢想，全然迥異於自己所以為……

"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."

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 their small town in 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 a funeral. Neither has lived the life they imagined . . . and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever changed their lives. Forced to confront painful memories, the two former lovers soon realize that everything they thought they knew—about themselves, and about the dreams they held dear—was not as it seemed. And in the course of a single, searing weekend, they will ask of the living, and the dead: Can love truly rewrite the past?

■尼可拉斯．史派克／Nicholas Sparks

美國知名純愛系小說家尼可拉斯．史派克，一九六五年十二月卅一日生於內布拉斯加州奧馬哈。史派克除了寫作令身兼電影編劇，目前出版十八部作品，主題涵蓋基督信仰、愛情、悲劇與跌宕命運等不同類型。其著作當中，目前已有八本已翻拍成電影登上大螢幕，計為《瓶中信》、《留住一片情》、《手札情緣》、《羅丹薩的夜晚》、《最後一封情書》、《最美的錯過》《最後一曲》、《幸運符》以及《愛情避風港》等多部賺人熱淚的作品。

Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American novelist, screenwriter, and philanthropist. He has published twenty-one novels and two non-fiction books, all of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 115 million copies sold worldwide in more than 50 languages.

Eleven of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John, The Last Song, and The Notebook, with a cumulative domestic box office totaling more than $574M.

Sparks lives in North Carolina, where he contributes to a variety of local and national charities.

作者：尼可拉斯．史派克／Nicholas Sparks

版本：Reissue edition

規格：小平裝／Mass Market Paperback，10.6 x 17.2 x 2.7 cm，350頁

出版商：Hachette Book Group

商標：Grand Central Publishing

出版日期：2013年03月01日

語言：英文

ISBN-13：978-0-446-54763-5

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