Mitch Albom 5 Books Collection Set (Tuesdays With Morrie, For One More Day, The Five People You Meet In Heaven,The Next Person You Meet in Heaven, Have A Little Faith)

Amazon.com Review Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol ). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs. Albom takes a big risk with the novel; such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. But, for the most part, Albom's telling remains poignant and is occasionally profound. Even with its flaws, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a small, pure, and simple book that will find good company on a shelf next to It's A Wonderful Life . --Patrick O'Kelley From Publishers Weekly "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. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. A Specially Produced Paperback Edition -- With Flaps -- Of The Phenomenal #1 New York Times Bestseller, That Has Sold More Than Six Million Copies In Hardcover Eddie Is A Grizzled War Veteran Who Feels Trapped In A Meaningless Life Of Fixing Rides At A Seaside Amusement Park. His Days Are A Dull Routine Of Work, Loneliness, And Regret. Then, On His 83rd Birthday, Eddie 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. These People May Have Been Loved Ones Or Distant Strangers. Yet Each Of Them Changed Your Path Forever. One By One, Eddie's Five People Illuminate The Unseen Connections Of His Earthly Life. 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 Gives Us An Astoundingly Original Story That Will Change Everything You've Ever Thought About The Afterlife -- And The Meaning Of Our Lives Here On Earth. With A Timeless Tale, Appealing To All, This Is A Book That Readers Of Fine Fiction, And Those Who Loved Tuesdays With Morrie, Will Treasure. "Eddie 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?"--Publisher description The Five People You Meet In Heaven is a 2003 novel by Mitch Albom. It follows the life and death of a ride mechanic named Eddie who is killed in an amusement park accident and sent to heaven, where he encounters five people who had a significant impact on him while he was alive. It was published by Hyperion and remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 95 weeks. Weaves three stories about 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement park. Eddie meets 5 individuals in heaven each with a story to share, a secret to reveal and a lesson. They have profound meanings for Eddie on the real purpose of his life ESTE RELATO ES SOBRE UN hombre que se llamaba Eddie y empieza por el final, con Eddie muriendo al sol.