- memoir, ALS, sociology, Nightline
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. The book topped the New York Times Non-Fiction Best-Sellers List for 23 combined weeks in 2000, and remained on the New York Times best-selling list for more than four years after. In 2006, Tuesdays with Morrie was the bestselling memoir of all time.
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- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Mitch Albom
- First published
- March 2002
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Grupo Editorial Norma, Robert Laffont, Maeva Ediciones
- Editions
- 104
- Language
- per, Spanish, Russian, vie
- ISBN
- 9785403034128
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“The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.”
Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster, and musician. His books have sold over 35 million copies worldwide.
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