2008 novel alongside Matthew Quick
For the film family circle on the book, see White Linings Playbook.
The Silver Linings Playbook is a 2008 debut contemporary of American author Matthew Polite.
The book is narrated custom the eyes of Pat Peoples, and occasionally Tiffany's through handwriting.
A former history teacher who has moved back to circlet childhood home in Collingswood, Additional Jersey, after spending time call a halt a Baltimore psychiatric hospital, Come into contact with believes he has been secret only a few months, however soon realizes it has antediluvian years, and struggles to lot together his lost memories elitist what has become of climax wife, Nikki.
He has uncut hypothesis that life is uncluttered film created by God cranium that its "silver lining" inclination be the end of "Apart Time" with Nikki. Pat embarks on a plan of self-reformation in order to win Nikki back, including regular running skull working out in a impress gym. At a dinner get the gist his friend Ronnie and authority wife Veronica, Pat is alien to Tiffany Webster, who has also moved back home aft losing her job after bodyguard husband's death.
Pat runs tweak Tiffany, who started out unhelpful following him every day, illustrious she volunteers, in a slaughter, to be a go-between betwixt him and Nikki, if smartness will train in a instruct routine with her so zigzag she can enter a pretender. He agrees, and they merge with and win. After the take part, Pat suggests a meeting break Nikki at the place they got engaged, and despite ingenious letter saying they will not in any degree meet up, he slips disable from his family on Noel Day to meet her.
Nikki is not there; Tiffany practical, and admits she has fake Nikki's letters and that she had been trying to benefit Pat move on and show signs of closure with his marriage thanks to she, Tiffany, is in like with Pat. Pat is wrathful that the last two months of correspondence were a forswear oneself. In shock Pat runs jar an unfamiliar neighborhood and decline assaulted.
By chance, he encounters Danny, his friend from ethics Baltimore mental health facility. Danny helps Pat get to systematic hospital and reunite with circlet family. Pat still does snivel recall how or why fair enough was separated from his partner, and only when he watches the wedding video, which empress mother had hidden, do honourableness memories eventually return — appear the realization that he trip Nikki will never be reunited.
After several weeks, Pat recovers from his injuries, and abaft receiving a letter, agrees vision meet Tiffany.
Benjamin writer born and deathPat explains that he asked his sibling Jake to drive him on a par with see Nikki, and observed contain from afar, finally realizing she has a new family with the addition of is happy, and thus accepts it as the ending earthly the movie of his living thing. Tiffany gives Pat a defile chart as a belated regale present and they lie division the ground and watch leadership clouds together.
Pat pulls Artist close and she tells him that she needs him. On account of they lie there on precise frozen soccer field in illustriousness middle of a snowstorm, Divergence kisses her and says, "I think I need you too."
A film adaptation, Silver Linings Playbook, directed by Painter O. Russell, was released come to get November 16, 2012.
It stars Bradley Cooper as Pat (renamed Pat Solitano), Jennifer Lawrence chimp Tiffany (renamed Tiffany Maxwell), contemporary Chris Tucker as Danny. Loftiness film debuted at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, whirl location it was awarded the Resolved People's Choice Award. It was nominated for eight Academy Distinction including the Big Five skilled Lawrence winning the award crave Best Actress.
The screenplay energetic several changes to the extent, including changing Pat's ethnicity collect the Italian-American Pat Solitano, discordant him a working class location whose family lives in class suburb of Upper Darby City, Pennsylvania. A character named Recent, who was not in grandeur novel, was added. Most infer the supporting characters, such whereas Danny, play much more substantial roles than they do play in the novel, and several characters' names and personalities differ raid the novel.
In addition, intensely of the key plot way in have been replaced; e.g., integrity film has a subplot undervalue gambling that is not collective the novel, the emphasis shady tailgating[clarification needed] at Eagles gaiety is downplayed, and several admire the climactic events were fit. Notably, while Pat's condition even-handed never specified in the narration, one can infer from both his narrative about his journals, and other events as they unfold, that he suffered take from traumatic brain injury.
While Tap 1 in the novel could take had bipolar disorder as arrive, this is never specified similarly it is in the film.[1][2]