Mitch Albom is the author of the international bestseller Tuesdays with Morrie, as well as six other books. He works as a newspaper columnist and a broadcaster, and serves on numerous charitable boards. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan.
Albom has done it again... FIVE PEOPLE is a powerful book, powerful enough to make one s inner snob feel a little uncomfortable...Albom has touched the lives of a lot of people he never even knew. If there is a heaven, he can expect to have around 5.7 million people waiting for him there Time [Eddie] learns not only about his life but also about what his time on earth meant. It is simple, unaffected and written with great feeling Publishing News Simply told, sentimental and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership . . . this slim tale, like Charles Dickens s A Christmas Carol, reminds us of what really matters here of earth, of what our lives are given to us for Publishers Weekly'Mitch Albom lifts us to a new level You'll find here echoes of the classics - The Odyssey for one - and that puts Albom's book in the best of company' Frank McCourt, author of ANGELA'S ASHES'This book is a gift to the soul' - Amy Tan, author of THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER
Albom has done it again... FIVE PEOPLE is a powerful book, powerful enough to make one s inner snob feel a little uncomfortable...Albom has touched the lives of a lot of people he never even knew. If there is a heaven, he can expect to have around 5.7 million people waiting for him there Time [Eddie] learns not only about his life but also about what his time on earth meant. It is simple, unaffected and written with great feeling Publishing News Simply told, sentimental and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership . . . this slim tale, like Charles Dickens s A Christmas Carol, reminds us of what really matters here of earth, of what our lives are given to us for Publishers Weekly'Mitch Albom lifts us to a new level You'll find here echoes of the classics - The Odyssey for one - and that puts Albom's book in the best of company' Frank McCourt, author of ANGELA'S ASHES'This book is a gift to the soul' - Amy Tan, author of THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER
"At the time of his death, Eddie was an old man with a barrel chest and a torso as squat as a soup can," writes Albom, author of the bestselling phenomenon Tuesdays with Morrie, in a brief first novel that is going to make a huge impact on many hearts and minds. Wearing a work shirt with a patch on the chest that reads "Eddie" over "Maintenance," limping around with a cane thanks to an old war injury, Eddie was the kind of guy everybody, including Eddie himself, tended to write off as one of life's minor characters, a gruff bit of background color. He spent most of his life maintaining the rides at Ruby Pier, a seaside amusement park, greasing tracks and tightening bolts and listening for strange sounds, "keeping them safe." The children who visited the pier were drawn to Eddie "like cold hands to a fire." Yet Eddie believed that he lived a "nothing" life-gone nowhere he "wasn't shipped to with a rifle," doing work that "required no more brains than washing a dish." On his 83rd birthday, however, Eddie dies trying to save a little girl. He wakes up in heaven, where a succession of five people are waiting to show him the true meaning and value of his life. One by one, these mostly unexpected characters remind him that we all live in a vast web of interconnection with other lives; that all our stories overlap; that acts of sacrifice seemingly small or fruitless do affect others; and that loyalty and love matter to a degree we can never fathom. Simply told, sentimental and profoundly true, this is a contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership. Bringing into the spotlight the anonymous Eddies of the world, the men and women who get lost in our cultural obsession with fame and fortune, this slim tale, like Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, reminds us of what really matters here on earth, of what our lives are given to us for. Backed by a $500,000 marketing campaign that includes a 30-city author tour, and boosted by the good will that millions will feel when they see Albom's name on the cover, this wonderful title should grace national fiction bestseller lists for a long time. Simultaneous Hyperion Audiobook, BOMC main selection. (One-day laydown Sept. 23) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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