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The Five People You Meet in Heaven Book
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Foyles
THE INSPIRATIONAL CLASSIC FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia Ahern_________To his mind, Eddie has lived an uninspiring life. Now an old man, his job is to fix rides at a seaside amusement park.On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie's time on earth comes to an end. When a cart falls from the fairground, he rushes to save a little girl's life and tragically dies in the attempt. When Eddie awakens, he learns that the afterlife is not a destination, but a place where your existence is explained to you by five people - some of whom you knew, others who were ostensibly strangers.One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, five individuals revisit their connections to Eddie on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his 'meaningless' life and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: 'Why was I here?'__________WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN'Breathtakingly beautiful. A story that will stay with you forever''A beautiful and flawlessly choreographed book . . . No other book may ever compare''One of my favourite books . . . Wonderful, inspirational, and heart-warming! To me, it is a MUST READ!'The book is beyond words . . . Well written, engaging, poignant''This really is a wonderful book. You should read it'
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Play
THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that addresses the meaning of life and life after death in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE such an astonishing book. The novel's protagonist is an elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who while operating a ride called the 'Free Fall' dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart that hurtles to earth. Eddie goes to heaven where he meets five people who were unexpectedly instrumental in some way in his life. While each guide takes him through heaven Eddie learns a little bit more about what his time on earth meant what he was supposed to have learned and what his true purpose on earth was. Throughout there are dramatic flashbacks where we see scenes from his troubled childhood his years in the army in the Philippines jungle and with his first and only love his wife Marguerite. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is the perfect book to follow TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. Its compellingly affecting themes and lyrical writing will fascinate Mitch Albom's huge readership.
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TheBookPeople
Eddie is a grizzled old war veteran who now fixes rides at a seaside amusement park. When he dies while trying to save a young girl from a falling cart in a tragic accident, he wakes up in the afterlife. Not the heaven he was expecting, he is confronted by a mixture of five strangers and loved ones from his past who go on to explain all about his earthly life, and the roles they played in it. As the story builds to the stunning and unexpected conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption. Was his life a heroic success of a devastating failure? Five People You Meet in Heaven is an enchanting and beautiful novel from Mitch Albom, the author of the bestselling Tuesdays With Morrie.
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Blackwell
Beautifully written first novel that addresses the meaning of life - and life after death - from the internationally bestselling author of the non-fiction TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that...
- 0751536822
- 9780751536829
- Mitch Albom
- 2 September 2004
- Sphere
- Paperback (Book)
- 240
- New edition
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