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Tuesdays with Morrie
- 199 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 1994
- 104 editions
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1 About this book
Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by the sportswriter Mitch Albom. Years after graduating from Brandeis University, Albom learns that his old sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, is dying of ALS, and goes to see him. One visit becomes fourteen, every Tuesday at Schwartz's home in Massachusetts, which the two of them treat as a last class. Each meeting takes a subject, among them death, fear, aging, greed, marriage, family, forgiveness and the meaning of life, and between the conversations Albom looks back at their friendship in his student days and at the career-driven life he has led since.
- Memoir
- Sociology
- Teacher-student relationships
- Biography
- Biography & Memoir
- Personal growth
- Psychology
- Spiritual life
2 What to expect
A short memoir of fourteen visits a sportswriter paid to his dying former professor, each one a conversation about a large subject: death, family, money, love, forgiveness. The lessons are simple and openly sentimental, and Albom sets them against his own busy, career-first life. It is quick to read, in very short chapters, and it is sad, since it follows a man through his final illness.
Good for readers who want: life lessons, a gentle and emotional read, and a short memoir.
3 About Mitch Albom
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Mitch Albom
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