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Search - The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Random House Large Print)
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Book Description:
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 tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens 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: "What was I here?"
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A fast, fun read. Thought provoking book about what happens to us when we reach Heaven. I recommend you read this book!
Carrie
All my friends loved this book. It is inspirational, but I have always had difficulty liking stories set in amusement park or circuses. It's probably a good thing everyone doesn't like the same things/books.
Melissa C. from VIRGINIA BCH, VA wrote on 4/3/2007...truly wonderful story told in a very different way. makes you stop and think a little, and smell the roses!
Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. Eddie awakens in the Afterlife, where he learns that Heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it.
Joanne A. (I was touched by the movie and am looking forward to reading the book.
Very good book, hard to put down once started.
Excellent book that will change your life and the way you think about other people and yourself. Highly recommend.
Rebecca S. from SAN DIEGO, CA wrote on 5/21/2006...i loved it.
Gerry L. from CARMEL, CA wrote on 12/28/2005...A moving flight of fantasy come to teach us that Heaven is where we finally learn what our life was about. Harold S. Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People