![]() ![]() ![]() TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. Movement is treated in turn as inevitable, a privilege, scary, and necessary. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is very concerned with the act of moving through time and space. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz gradually dies of ALS. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. ![]() And when we, mere mortals, out here read his works - it touches the average man/woman and young person with an intensity that makes us actually think and consider various inner convictions and ideals. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. The style of Tuesdays with Morrie the tone is intensely personal, Albom wrote the plot very straightforward with little ambiguity. Tuesdays with Morrie Mitch Albom is a friendly sort of average insightful guy in regards to the Human Condition. ![]()
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