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Tuesdays With Morrie & The Five People You Meet In Heaven
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Binding: Full-Leather
Book Condition: As New Edition: Signed Edition Size: 8vo; Signed by Author Publisher: Easton Press, 2005, Norwalk, CT [Book #12202] A special Limited Edition of two Mitch Albom titles, The Five People You Meet in Heaven being SIGNED by author Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie unsigned as issued). A wonderful scarce set in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap; Sportswriter Mitch Albom, one-time student of Morrie Schwartz, rediscovered his college professor from nearly twenty years ago in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Albom chronicles Morrie's last days with his mentor, a sociologist who courageously, dispassionately studied his own degeneration from Lou Gehrig's disease. Eddie, a war veteran and head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park, is an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. When he awakes in the afterlife he learns that heaven is not a destination. Basis for the movie starring Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, and Jeff Daniels Contains all of the classic Easton Press trimmings: premium leather, silk moiré end leaves, distinctive cover design, raised bands, accented in real 22KT gold, satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, long-lasting, high quality acid-neutral paper, sewn pages for strength and durability; Vol. 1 & 2
Price: $180.00
Author Bio
Albom, Mitch
Mitchell David Albom (born May 23, 1958) is a best-selling author of fiction and non-fiction, and a newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press. Albom wrote Tuesdays With Morrie in 1997, a memoir of his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz. His next book was The Five People You Meet in Heaven published in September of 2003. Albom's second fiction book, For One More Day, published in 2006, was about a son who gets to spend a day with his mother who died eight years earlier. Award Info |