One day at work, an accident happens causing Eddie to die at the pier from trying to save a little girl from a falling ride. Work was everything to Eddie, it kept him grounded and the pier became his life. As an injured war verteran, Eddie has to walk around work everyday with a cane. Doing daily menial tasks, his days consist of waking up before the sun, going to work and doing it all over again the following day. Eddie is the head maintenance man at the pier amusement park. His most famous novel, “Tuesdays with Morrie,” has sold over 14 million copies alone and is a common find among thrift store book shelves.įollowing in his father’s footsteps, Eddie worked at Ruby Pier his whole life and he regrets not doing anything more with his life. Albom has sold over 33 million copies of his novels worldwide. The author of “Tuesdays with Morrie,” Mitch Albom tugs at your heartstrings with his heart wrenching prose about life and death and important lessons that we sometimes do not learn until it is too late.Īlbom is an American writer and musician as well as a journalist. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.” This comes from Mitch Albom’s 2003 novel “The Five People You Meet In Heaven,” and it perfectly encapsulates the novel. Simultaneous release with the Hyperion hardcover (Forecasts, Aug. ) musings on the meaning of life will not be disappointed. However, the soft-spoken intonations he employs for women and the gruff but bashful voices he uses for men add an extra dose of sweetener to this already sentimental tale, as does Singer's plaintive rendition of Eddie and his wife Marguerite's song, "You made me love you." Still, those who turn to this audio book for Albom's ( Tuesdays with Morrie Accompanied at times by music that sounds psychedelic rather than heavenly, reader Singer conveys this uplifting story in an earnest manner. Upon his death, he learns that heaven is a place to make sense of his time on earth and that he will meet five people from his life who will help him understand its greatest lessons. Known as "Eddie Maintenance" to those he works with at Ruby Pier, Eddie led what he saw as a disappointing life working as head of maintenance at a seaside amusement park. This life-affirming fable ironically opens at the end of the life of a seemingly ordinary man.
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