01949cam a2200409Ia 4500 4868 4868 70887022 OCoLC 20181217131217.0 060814s2006 nyu 000 1 eng d 1401308589 (pbk.) 9781401308582 (pbk.) (OCoLC)70887022 NOG NOG BAKER YDXCP OCLCQ IHI BTCTA PS3601.L335 F59 2006 813.6 21 A339F Albom, Mitch, 1958- The five people you meet in heaven / Mitch Albom 5 people you meet in heaven 1st paperback ed New York : Hyperion, [2006] New York : Hyperion, [2006] 196 pages ; 20 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Hyperion...March...2006"--Amazon.com "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 Accident victims Fiction Amusement parks Fiction Amusement rides Fiction Future life Fiction Older men Fiction Heaven Fiction Death Fiction Psychological fiction. lcgft ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC HMC HMC GEN 2018-12-17 340.00 0 813.6 A339F 005592 2018-12-17 00:00:00 2018-12-17 BK