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Five People You Meet In Heaven

by Mitch Albom
Five People You Meet In Heaven

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ISBN10: 0786868716
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From the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie comes this long-awaited follow-up, an enchanting, beautifully crafted novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold.

Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years — from the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline Plunge — so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to embittered old age. 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. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his — and then nothing. 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 who were in it. 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.

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"Sincere....A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers." The New York Times

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"Simply told, sentimental, and profoundly true, this is an contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership." Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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"Fans of Tuesdays with Morrie will be delighted with this novel." People magazine

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"A sweet book that makes you smile but is not gooey with overwrought sentiment." Booklist

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"Transcendent....Albom has aimed high here, and there's a whiff of paradise as a result." Atlanta Journal Constitution

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"This is a lovely book, sweet, entertaining and wise. What a gutsy, surprising follow-up to Morrie." Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies and Blue Shoe

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"It's easy to feel an affinity for this simplistic, folksy bathos; it's easier, after all, to act for the sake of heaven than to make the considered and nuanced moral choices that really confront us in life. And it is here that Albom fails. His character makes no moral choices, he does not ponder the depths of his existence, he is merely a reactive stick figure that has to go to cotton-candy heaven to learn that his life had meaning. It's single-serve religion for a drive-thru, strip-mall, mega-church kind of country." Sacha Zimmerman, The New Republic (read the entire New Republic review)

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Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him, as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"

About the Author

Mitch Albom is an author, playwright, and screenwriter who has written seven books, including the international bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time. His first novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, was an instant number-one New York Times bestseller that has since sold more than six million copies worldwide. Both books were made into acclaimed TV films. Mitch also works as a columnist and a broadcaster, and serves on numerous charitable boards. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan.

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LisaN , August 04, 2012 (view all comments by LisaN)
I sat down to read this and didn't stop until it was finished (it's a pretty quick read, but I couldn't put it down the whole time). This is a wonderful story and it's wonderfully written. I'll be recommending it to a lot of my friends.

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Foxxie Wyldfyre , January 04, 2012 (view all comments by Foxxie Wyldfyre)
this is an easy read and a feel good book. sometimes people feel as though they are dealt a hand in life they can not change. in this story you realize what many people forget in life "you affect people" the story does not harp on you have to be this kind of person or that kind to get to heaven. because it is not about heaven. it is about no matter who you are and what you do YOU AFFECT THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU!!!! nice book and a fun little read

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Icelyn , January 01, 2011
it's a book which you would change your view about after life. something which you will never expected to find.

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James Horne , January 01, 2010 (view all comments by James Horne)
Although "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" may not be one of the great literary works of our time, this imaginative story is uplifting, inspiring, and at time heart-breaking in its simplicity and message. I was an English major in college, continue to read great contemporary books (like "The Brutal Telling" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns"), but found this particular small book to be the most memorable one I read this past decade. It is based on the idea that all things will be revealed to you upon death, but addresses the topic from the perspective that those lessons will be conveyed by individuals who may have played a very brief, but important, role in our lives. It is a wonderful book to give to friends who recently have lost loved ones because it has such a positive message.

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desi_young , November 04, 2008 (view all comments by desi_young)
A story to make you think of who your five people in heaven are and how you've impacted others in your everyday life without knowing it. If the final revelation by Eddies fifth person doesn't bring a tear to your eye, you must be a heartless cold person. The movie was good and faithful to the book, but reading the book is way better as it plays out in your head and imagination.

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jengem , September 27, 2006 (view all comments by jengem)
This book, [t]"The five people you meet in heaven"[/t] by [a]Mitch Albom[/a], was very powerful to me. I coundn't help but love the way it made you think about the random people who have changed your life without you even seeing how much they did for you. Ths book makes a wonderful gift to give to family and friends and It is great to keep on your own book shelf. Please go and pick it up- it really can impower you.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780786868711
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
09/23/2003
Publisher:
HYPERION BOOKS
Pages:
196
Height:
.74IN
Width:
5.30IN
Thickness:
.75
Age Range:
18 and up
Grade Range:
13 and up
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2003
Series Volume:
96-19
UPC Code:
2800786868713
Author:
Katie MacAlister
Author:
Erik Singer
Author:
Hyperion Assorted Authors
Author:
Mitch Albom
Author:
Mitch Albom
Subject:
Future life
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Visionary & Metaphysics
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Amusement rides.
Subject:
Amusement parks
Subject:
Heaven
Subject:
Older men
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Aged men
Subject:
Accident victims
Subject:
Psychological

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