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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
ISBN-100786868716
ISBN-139780786868711
eBay Product ID (ePID)2374938
Product Key Features
Book TitleFive People You Meet in Heaven
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicPsychological, Christian / Classic & Allegory, Religious, Visionary & Metaphysical
GenreFiction
AuthorMitch Albom
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length7.6 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-047888
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromEighth Grade
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Dewey DecimalFIC
SynopsisEddie 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?", From the bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie , a war veteran encounters the true significance of life after death in this touching modern classic. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic amusement park ride accident in an attempt to save a little girl's life. 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 both loved ones and distant strangers. 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 will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife--and the meaning of our lives here on earth.