On his 83rd birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his--and then nothing. He awakens in the afterflife, 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. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever.
year: 2003, 2010, 2008
call number/section: 1000, 813.6, 920, 4, 7
subjects: accident victims, fiction, amusement parks, amusement rides, future life, older men, large print books, death, heaven, elderly, fiction, paradise, accidents, elderly men, psychological fiction, psychological fiction
Editions
Albom, Mitch
Hyperion (2003)
A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
Schools: 59
Albom, Mitch
Random House Large Print (2010)
Killed in a tragic accident, Eddie, an elderly man who believes that he had an uninspired life, awakens in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven consists of having five people explain the meaning of one's life.
Schools: 1
Recorded Books, LLC
On his 83rd birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his--and then nothing. He awakens in the afterflife, 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. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever.
Schools: 3
Albom, Mitch
Hyperion (2008)
A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers; explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
Schools: 1
Albom, Mitch
A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
Schools: 8
Albom, Mitch
Eddie is a war-veteran who fixes rides at an amusement park and when he dies trying to save a girl from a falling cart, he discovers that the afterlife is actually five people who sit down and explain your life to you.
Schools: 1