Phil Cavilleri is Jenny’s father and is a baker. He has achieved lots of athletic credentials and had rowed single sculls at the Olympic Games in 1928.Īlison Forbes Barrett, also called Tipsy, is Oliver’s mother. His father is wearing a mask of absolute stone. Oliver Barrett III, also called sonovabitch and Old Stoneyface by Oliver because he says that She lived with her Italian father Phil, because her mother died in a car accident when Jenny was young. Jennifer Cavilleri, also called Jenny is a music student at Radcliffe University and is from All the ‘Barrett generations’ went to Harvard. Mainly because they’re well-known and of course because of their large amount of money. He has very rich parents who have lots of influence at Harvard. Oliver Barrett IV, also called Ollie is a law student at Harvard University and is a good ice. This last one is a sequel to Love Story, but was far less successful. Besides Love Story he has written amongst others, Fairy Tale, Yellow Submarine and Oliver’s Story. He acted in movies and was a television commentator for the Olympic Games. You ‘see’ things happening through Oliver’s eyes and all his thoughts are written down.Įrich Segal is an American professor of Greek and Latin literature and used to be a marathon runner. The story is written in the I-form and in this case Oliver is the I-person. It starts at the beginning, when they meet and ends when they are separated because Jenny dies. The story tells about Ollie’s and Jenny’s life together, which lasts about three to five years. The story is written in chronological order and has no flashbacks. Later on, when they married they moved to New York City. Oliver studies at Harvard and Jenny at Radcliffe, which are both part of Harvard University in Cambridge, a town near Boston, Massachussettes. The story takes place in the 1960s in America. Also because it was made into a very successful film starring Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neal. Over 21 million copies have been sold in 33 languages and it became one of the biggest best sellers of the 1970s. PUBLISHED BY: Harper and Row, New York and Hodder and Stoughton, London TYPE OF BOOK: A classical, tragic love story

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