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Tuesdays with Morrie

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 Tuesdays with Morrie


基本信息出版社:Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
页码:192 页
出版日期:1999年01月
ISBN:0385496494
条形码:9780385496490
版本:第1版
装帧:精装
开本:20开 Pages Per Sheet
外文书名:相约星期二

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Book Description
Finally available in paperback--the first runaway #1 bestseller and modern inspirational classic by the bestselling author of "The Five People You Meet in Heaven." Albom tells the story of his reconnection with his college professor and mentor, Morrie Schwartz, and their visits in the months prior to Morrie's death.

Amazon.com
No one but Mitch Albom could have read Tuesdays with Morrie so effectively. As the author of this inspirational true story, Albom uses verbal inflection in exactly the right places to evoke humor, empathy, and emotion. It's an honest reading, and the underlying timbre of private memory pushes it past mere recitation to pure storytelling.
The titular Morrie was Morrie Schwartz, Albom's university professor 20 years before the events being narrated. An accidental viewing of an interview with Morrie on Nightline led Albom to become reunited with his old teacher, friend, and "coach" at a time when Albom, a successful sportswriter, was struggling to define dissatisfactions with his own life and career. Morrie, on the other hand, after a rich life filled with friends, family, teaching, and music, was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease, a crippling illness that diminished his activities daily. Albom was one of hundreds of former students and acquaintances who traveled great distances to visit Morrie in the final months of his life.

The 14 Tuesday visits that followed their reunion took Albom--and will take listeners with him--on a journey of reawakening to life's best rewards. The story is told in a journalistic style that never crosses into pathos. That a professional writer can write well is not surprising, but Albom also reads well, with clear enunciation and a talent for mimicry. Another reader might have interpreted the professor's aphorisms as droll humor or wrung a wrong note at an inappropriate moment, making the story a maudlin tearjerker; instead it is read for what it is, a tribute to a remarkable teacher. (Running time: four hours, three cassettes)
                         --Brenda Pittsley
From Library Journal
A Detroit Free Press journalist and best-selling author recounts his weekly visits with a dying teacher who years before had set him straight.

Book Dimension
Height (mm) 176                   Width (mm) 109
媒体推荐 " Mitch Albom' s book is a gift to mankind." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
" A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul." --"Los Angeles Times"
" An elegantly simple story about a writer getting a second chance to discover life through the death of a friend." --"Tampa Tribune"
" An extraordinary contribution to the literature of death." "--The Boston Globe"
" This is a true story that shines and leaves you forever warmed by its afterglow." --Amy Tan
" Every page of this beautiful, moving little book shines with the warmth of unembarrassed love." --Rabbi Harold Kushner
" One of those books that kind of sneaked up and grabbed people' s hearts over time." "--Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
" The book is an incredible treasure." --Bernie Siegel, M.D.
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