The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Book
by Mitch Albom
A specially produced paperback edition--with flaps--of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife--and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.
Review Citations:
- Criticas 01/19/2007 (EAN 9781401384821, Compact Disc)
- Ingram Advance 11/01/2005 pg. 157 (EAN 9781401384050, Compact Disc)
- Criticas 07/01/2004 pg. 47 (EAN 9781401301729, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
- Library Journal 10/24/2005 (EAN 9781401397517, Analog Audio Cassette)
- Booklist 09/01/2003 pg. 5 (EAN 9780786868711, Hardcover)
- Library Journal 09/15/2003 pg. 89 (EAN 9780786868711, Hardcover)
- Entertainment Weekly 12/26/2003 pg. 153 (EAN 9780786868711, Hardcover)
- Publishers Weekly 08/18/2003 pg. 55 (EAN 9780786868711, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
- Time 10/13/2003 pg. 82 (EAN 9780375432323, Hardcover)
- People Weekly 09/29/2003 pg. 45 (EAN 9780375432323, Hardcover)
- Entertainment Weekly 09/26/2003 pg. 97 (EAN 9780375432323, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio:
Mitch Albom is a bestselling novelist, a screen-writer, a playwright, and an award-winning journalist. He is the author of six consecutive number-one New York Times bestsellers and has sold more than thirty-four million copies of his books in forty-two languages worldwide. Tuesdays with Morrie, which spent four years atop the New York Times list, is the bestselling memoir of all time.
Albom has founded seven charities, including the first-ever full-time medical clinic for homeless children in America. He also operates an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He lives with his wife, Janine, in suburban Detroit.
