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Tuesdays with Morrie : an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
Record details
- ISBN: 0307275639 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0385484518
- ISBN: 076790592X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780307275639 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 97803854845110
- ISBN: 9780767905923 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
192 p. ; 19 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c1997.
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- Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 4 / 5.0
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- 2 of 2 copies available at South Central Regional Library. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Manitou Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Manitou Library | 378.1 Alb (Text) | 36620001655904 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 1997 May
A Detroit Free Press journalist and best-selling author recounts his weekly visits with a dying teacher who years before had set him straight. Copyright 1997 Cahners Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1997 June #5
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. (Sept.) Copyright 1998 Publishers Weekly Reviews
