Combined with the humor he brings to this adolescent awakening, the novel is a lilting reminder of how, even as the years fly by, certain events loom huge in our minds.”- Washington Post “Nicholls’s effortless distillation of this formative experience is enough to make a reader wonder if all first loves share some of the same chords. Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out. The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet learned and performed in a theater troupe over the course of a summer. But when Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope. Then: Sixteen-year-old Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don’t remember in the school photograph. Now: On the verge of marriage and a fresh start, thirty-eight year old Charlie Lewis finds that he can’t stop thinking about the past, and the events of one particular summer. To get ready for the conversation, we’ve compiled some introductory information on this tragicomic novel the Washington Post called “a tale of first love that hits all the right notes.” The Folger’s virtual book club, Words, Words, Words continues on Thursday, June 3 with a discussion of David Nicholls’ Sweet Sorrow.
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