<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 0 - 446 - 60895 - 5 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 44913996 </Td> </Tr> <P> A Walk to Remember is a novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks, released in October 1999 . The novel, set in 1958--1959 in Beaufort, North Carolina, is a story of two teenagers who fall in love with each other despite the disparity of their personalities . A Walk to Remember is adapted in the film of the same name . </P> <P> Sparks wrote the manuscripts for A Walk to Remember, his third novel, in the summer of 1999 . He wrote it in North Carolina, which is the setting of the novel . Like his first published novel The Notebook, the prologue to A Walk to Remember was written last . The title A Walk to Remember was taken from one of the tail end pages of the novel: "In every way, a walk to remember ." The novel is written in first - person, and its narrator is a seventeen - year - old boy, living in the 1950s . </P>

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