ABOUT THE BOOK:
Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe . . Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny are kindred spirits from vastly different worlds. Falling deeply and powerfully, their attraction to one another defies everything they have ever believed—as they share a passion far greater than anything they dreamed possible . . . and explore the wonder of a love that must end too soon.
REVIEW BY DANIA: (None)
OTHER INFORMATION:
The novel was an instant commercial success despite scathing reviews. It was nominated for a National Book Award, but withdrawn when the judges threatened to resign. William Styron, the head judge for fiction that year, called it “a banal book which simply doesn’t qualify as literature” and suggested that even by being nominated it would have “demeaned” all the other novels under consideration.
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
1. Cultural appropriation
2. Death
3. Drowning
4. Grief
5. Racism
6. Vietnam War (referenced)
7. Xenophobia
