One Day ….by David Nicholls
“The Hollywood-ready latest from Nicholls (The Understudy) makes a brief pit stop in book form before its inevitable film adaptation. (It’s already in development.) The episodic story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dex and Em. It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day-July 15th-of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself…
“A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad . . . . it melts as you read it so that you don’t notice all the hard work that it’s doing.” -The Times (London)
“Just as Nicholls has made full use of his central concept, so he has drawn on all his comic and literary gifts to produce a novel that is not only roaringly funny but also memorable, moving and, in its own unassuming, unpretentious way, rather profound.” -The Guardian (London)
“Big, absorbing, smart, fantastically readable.” -Nick Hornby, from his blog
“[Nicholls] has a gift for zeitgeist description and emotional empathy that’s wholly his own. . . . [A] light but surprisingly deep romance so thoroughly satisfying.” -Entertainment Weekly
“Nicholls offers sharp dialogue and wry insight that sounds like Nick Hornby at his best.” -The Daily Beast (A Best Book of the Summer)
“[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most hilarious and emotionally riveting love stories you’ll ever encounter.” -People
“Those of us susceptible to nostalgic reveries of youthful heartache and self-invention (which is to say, all of us) longed to get our hands on Nicholls’s new novel. -New York Times Book Review
“Who doesn’t relish a love story with the right amount of heart-melting romance, disappointment, regret, and huge doses of disenchantment about growing up and growing old between quarreling meant-to-be lovers?” -Elle, Top 10 Summer Books for 2010
$8.22 Publisher: Vintage (June 15, 2010) http://www.amazon.com/
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