Love Story by Erich Segal is a tale of two college students, Oliver and Jenny, who come from different backgrounds but fall deeply in love. Despite facing obstacles like disapproval from Oliver's parents, their love story is characterized by heartfelt moments and tragic turns. The book is written in a concise and engaging manner, focusing on the emotional journey of the characters as they navigate through love, loss, and the complexities of relationships.
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Content warnings include themes of terminal illness and the death of a character, which may be distressing for some readers.
Has Romance?
Yes, there is a strong presence of romance throughout the narrative.
From The Publisher:
"Funny, touching and infused with wonder, as all love stories should be."-San Francisco Examiner
The basis for the 1970 film starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw, Erich Segal's Love Story is an enduring classic that has captured hearts for almost 50 years.
It is the story of Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law, and Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.
Oliver and Jenny - kindred spirits from different worlds - meet, talk, question, answer and fall for each other so deeply that no one, themselves included, can understand it. So instead of trying to understand it, they accept it and live it as best they can.
This is their story - a story of two young people and a love so uncompromising it will bring joy to your heat and tears to your eyes. It is the story that told the world, "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
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About the Author:
Erich Segal's first three novels, Love Story, Oliver's Story, and Man, Woman and Child, were all international bestsellers and became major motion pictures. His fourth novel, The Class, was a New York Times bestseller and won literary prizes in both France and Italy. Segal is also the author of Doctors and Acts of Faith and Prizes.
FRANCESCA SEGAL was born in London in 1980 and studied at Oxford before becoming a journalist and writer. Her work has appeared in Granta, Newsweek, The Guardian (U.K.), Financial Times and Vogue (U.K. and U.S.), amongst many other publications. She has been a features writer at Tatler, and for three years she wrote the Debut Fiction column in The Observer (U.K.).
WEB: FRANCESCASEGAL.COM
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