Tuesdays With Morrie
The most uplifting book ever written about the importance of human connection
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Publisher Description
THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS
'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern
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Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.
Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?
Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.
Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.
Don't miss Mitch's uplifting new novel THE LITTLE LIAR, out now.
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WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
'You cannot put the book down until you reach the end . . . Too good to be missed. It is really an all-time hit'
'One of the most beautiful books I've read in a long, long time . . . It will always be one of my favourite books'
'This book moved me immensely and its teachings will stay with me'
'A simple yet moving account of love and loss - but also hope for something better'
'A book I will read and re-read'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As a student at Brandeis University in the late 1970s, Albom was especially drawn to his sociology professor, Morris Schwartz. On graduation he vowed to keep in touch with him, which he failed to do until 1994, when he saw a segment about Schwartz on the TV program Nightline, and learned that he had just been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease. By then a sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press and author of six books, including Fab Five, Albom was idled by the newspaper strike in the Motor City and so had the opportunity to visit Schwartz in Boston every week until the older man died. Their dialogue is the subject of this moving book in which Schwartz discourses on life, self-pity, regrets, aging, love and death, offering aphorisms about each--e.g., "After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left." Far from being awash in sentiment, the dying man retains a firm grasp on reality. An emotionally rich book and a deeply affecting memorial to a wise mentor, who was 79 when hedied in 1995.
Customer Reviews
Necessary!
Everyone needs to read this book.To understand what’s truly important and to be able to live one’s life with some acceptance of one’s death but most importantly to live each day as if it’s our last.Learn to live and love completely and in the moment.
Beautiful
Such a beautiful and moving story and one that we can all learn from.
Everyone should read this book!
I love this book...have fallen in love with it and what it can teach us. I have read it a number of times and will probably continue to do so every so often. The lessons Morrie teaches are life changing if you keep an open mind and open heart.