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The Five People You Meet In Heaven
By (Author) Mitch Albom
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
1st February 2005
2nd September 2004
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Long-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2005 (UK)
Paperback
240
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 17mm
216g
From the author of the phenomenal number one bestseller TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, comes this enchanting, beautifully written novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold. Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. Then he 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 who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. 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 is as magical and inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.
* 'A powerful book' Time
Mitch Albom writes for the Detroit Free Press and has been voted America's No. 1 sports columnist ten times by the Associated Press Sports Editors. A former professional musician, he hosts a daily radio show on WJR in Detroit.