For One More Day

by Mitch Albom | Other | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0751537500 Global Overview for this book
Registered by winglmn60wing of Spotswood, Victoria Australia on 4/5/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by winglmn60wing from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Sunday, April 5, 2009
Picked this one up in a job lot of brand new books I bought on ebay for release. I'm not a big fan of Albom's writing, but hopefully another reader will enjoy this one!

From Publishers Weekly...
'In this second novel from Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven author Albom, grief-stricken Charles "Chick" Benetto goes into an alcoholic tailspin when his always-attentive mother, Pauline, dies. Framed as an "as told to" story, Chick quickly narrates her funeral; his drink-fueled loss of savings, job ("sales") and family; and his descent into loneliness and isolation. After a suicide attempt, Chick encounters Pauline's ghost. Together, the two revisit Pauline's travails raising her children alone after his father abandons them: she braves the town's disapproval of her divorce and works at a beauty parlor, taking an extra job to put money aside for the children's education. Pauline cringes at the heartache Chick inflicted as a demanding child, obnoxious teen and brusque, oblivious adult chasing the will-o'-the-wisp of a baseball career. Through their story, Albom foregrounds family sanctity, maternal self-sacrifice and the destructive power of personal ambition and male self-involvement. He wields pathos as if it were a Louisville Slugger—shoveling dirt into Pauline's grave, Chick hears her spirit cry out, " 'Oh, Charley. How could you?' "—but Albom often strikes a nerve on his way to the heart.'

Journal Entry 2 by winglmn60wing at Bookmooch.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (4/7/2009 UTC) at Bookmooch.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases

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