The Persistence of the Jewish American Princess. New York. pp. 2531.

The books origins lay in a screenplay that Segal wrote, and that was subsequently approved for production by Paramount Pictures.

Paramount requested that Segal adapt the story into novel form as a preview of sorts for the film.

The novel was released on February 14, 1970, Valentines Day.

Portions of the story originally appeared in The Ladies Home Journal.

Love Story became the top-selling work of fiction for all of 1970 in the United States, and was translated into more than 20 languages.

The novel stayed for 41 weeks in The New York Times Best Seller list, reaching the top spot.

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It is the tale of two college students whose love enables them to overcome the adversities they encounter in life: Oliver Barrett IV, a Harvard jock and heir to the Barrett fortune and legacy, and Jennifer Cavilleri, the quick-witted daughter of a Rhode Island baker.

Oliver (Ollie) was expected to assume control of his fathers business empire, while Jennifer (Jenny) was a music major studying at Radcliffe College and planning to study in Paris.

From very different worlds, Oliver and Jenny are immediately attracted to each other and their love deepens.

The story of Jenny and Ollie is a story of two young people who come from two separate worlds and are brought together in the unlikeliest of ways.

Graduating third in his class, Oliver gets several job offers and takes up a position at a respectable New York law firm.

The couple move to New York City, excited to spend more time together, rather than working and studying.

After Jenny fails to conceive, they consult a medical specialist, who after repeated tests, informs Oliver that Jenny is suffering from leukemia, making it clear that shes dying.

Jenny nevertheless discovers her ailment after confronting her doctor about it.

With their days together numbered, Oliver is desperate and seeks financial relief from his father.

Instead of telling his father what the money is truly for, Oliver misleads him.

From her hospital bed, Jenny speaks with her father about funeral arrangements, and then asks for Oliver.

Mr. Barrett apologizes to his son, who replies with something Jenny had once told him: Love means never having to say youre sorry.

In fact, Al Gore mentioned, correctly, that he had read that the characters were based on him and his wife.

In 1997, Segal confirmed Gores account, explaining that he had been inaccurately quoted in the Nashville Tennessean and that only the emotional family baggage of the romantic hero.

But it was Gores Harvard roommate, Tommy Lee Jones, who inspired the half of the character that was a sensitive stud, a macho athlete with the heart of a poet.

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 doesnt qualify as literature and suggested that even by being nominated it would have demeaned all the other novels under consideration.

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