Cover Reveal: The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks

Title: The Longest Ride
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Published/Release Date: September 17, 2013 by Grand Central Publishing

Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together – how they met, the precious paintings they collected together, the dark days of WWII and its effect on them and their families. Ira knows that Ruth can’t possibly be in the car with him, but he clings to her words and his memories, reliving the sorrows and everyday joys that defined their marriage.

A few miles away, at a local rodeo, a Wake Forest College senior’s life is about to change. Recovering from a recent break-up, Sophia Danko meets a young cowboy named Luke, who bears little resemblance to the privileged frat boys she has encountered at school. Through Luke, Sophia is introduced to a world in which the stakes of survival and success, ruin and reward -- even life and death – loom large in everyday life. As she and Luke fall in love, Sophia finds herself imagining a future far removed from her plans -- a future that Luke has the power to rewrite . . . if the secret he’s keeping doesn’t destroy it first.

Ira and Ruth. Sophia and Luke. Two couples who have little in common, and who are separated by years and experience. Yet their lives will converge with unexpected poignancy, reminding us all that even the most difficult decisions can yield extraordinary journeys: beyond despair, beyond death, to the farthest reaches of the human heart.

 

Here are a couple of quotes I saw on Nicholas Sparks’ Facebook page:

  

 

I’m so excited for this release! Especially since Nicholas Sparks did not have a new release in 2012. This is one of the books I’ll be reading for the 2013 Nicholas Sparks Reading Challenge. Fox 2000 has already acquired the film rights for this book-to-movie adaptation and the goal is for a theatrical release in February 2015. No surprise there – about the film rights already being required or the Valentine day release. So what do you think of the cover? Are you planning on reading The Longest Ride?