Tuesdays with Morrie
An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
Mitch Albom
Doubleday, 1999
ISBN: 0385496494
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, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. [...] [Mitch Albom] rediscovered [his mentor] Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuestday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live."
In every one of Albom's words that he uses to describe these last months you can feel just how much this teacher has given him, how much this teacher meant to him.
The phrase 'A true story!' just sound so wrong, so catchy, but there was a constant feeling that this story was true. It was not only true, is told in such a true, sincere and honest way that you feel like you are there with them. Going through the process of realizing death, of saying good-bye and thank you. Both, teacher and student, knew how much they meant to each other. Do the people that influenced you, that mentored you, know?
There is also a movie with Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria, which was the last film Jack Lemmon made before his death in June 2001. Has anyone seen it? Does anyone have it? Is it good?
Mitch Albom has been voted America's No. 1 sports columnist ten times by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He hosts a daily radio show on WJR in Detroit and appears on ESPN regularly. Albom, a former professional musician, lives in Michigan.
The book is available at Amazon in English and Deutsch.
Tags: English, novel, Sachbuch
Mitch Albom
Doubleday, 1999
ISBN: 0385496494
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, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. [...] [Mitch Albom] rediscovered [his mentor] Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuestday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live."
In every one of Albom's words that he uses to describe these last months you can feel just how much this teacher has given him, how much this teacher meant to him.
The phrase 'A true story!' just sound so wrong, so catchy, but there was a constant feeling that this story was true. It was not only true, is told in such a true, sincere and honest way that you feel like you are there with them. Going through the process of realizing death, of saying good-bye and thank you. Both, teacher and student, knew how much they meant to each other. Do the people that influenced you, that mentored you, know?
There is also a movie with Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria, which was the last film Jack Lemmon made before his death in June 2001. Has anyone seen it? Does anyone have it? Is it good?
Mitch Albom has been voted America's No. 1 sports columnist ten times by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He hosts a daily radio show on WJR in Detroit and appears on ESPN regularly. Albom, a former professional musician, lives in Michigan.
The book is available at Amazon in English and Deutsch.
Tags: English, novel, Sachbuch
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