Book Description
This is the story of a man named Charley who loses his job, leaves his family, and decides, one night, to end his life. Somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother, who died years ago, and he spends one last day with her - a day he never had on earth. This 'ordinary' day covers the whole of their existence, and reveals how Charley, like many children, was constantly forced to choose between his mother and his father. He gets the chance many of us yearn for - to ask the questions never asked while our parents are alive. In the end, Charley learns how little he really knew about his mother, how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the chance to save his own.
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. (Sept. 26)
From AudioFile
Charlie's been drunk so often and disappointed his daughter so many times that she doesn't invite him to her wedding. He even fails at his suicide. Or does he? When his deceased mother returns to love him unconditionally for one more day, he's not quite sure what's going on. The author reads his book with a deep, resonant voice that matches the sentimental sermonizing in the story. Albom's narration singsongs as Charlie reflects on his mother's past support, his own failings, and the events of a confusing present in which he relishes his mother's care and sees his own life clearly for the first time. S.W.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
發表於2024-11-04
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這本書的簡介讓我很是心動, 很快的看完後發現沒還多的讀 後感瞭。不過還是賺瞭我的幾滴眼淚,閤上書後慢慢的迴想 纔體會到一個平常又不平凡的母親。 特彆是母親的美麗後麵的堅強, 維護自尊的代價真的很大,特彆是對於女人, 一個魅力四射的女人。
評分 評分書中,我喜歡的一句話,感同身受的一句話: “have you ever dreamt of someone who's gone, but in the dream you have a new conversation?The world you enter then is not so far from the world they're in now" "When someone is in your heart, they're never truly g...
評分 評分My uncle passed away in March. I was occupied by my job at that time, and not available for his funeral. But on the morning when his body was being cremated, I busted into tears. I know, at that moment, his body was being burnt into ashes, and I would never...
圖書標籤: MitchAlbom 小說 英文原版 生命 人生 外國文學 英文 美國
6.5/2017 This is a really beautiful and touching story. 它講瞭生活中平常的事,因為太平常你覺得你能在故事裏看到自己的影子。我讀這本書時無時無刻不在想我的媽媽還有我的女兒,我知道媽媽她有多愛我我知道自己會多愛自己的女兒。
評分幾年前讀過本書作者的《你在天堂裏遇見的5個人》中譯本,當時覺得過於簡略。最近翻看For One More Day,發現他的文體風格就是這樣,溫情脈脈,簡潔含蓄,沒有生僻詞,如生活中的日子一般平常,但是“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute. ”
評分好感人!麻麻好棒!
評分6.5/2017 This is a really beautiful and touching story. 它講瞭生活中平常的事,因為太平常你覺得你能在故事裏看到自己的影子。我讀這本書時無時無刻不在想我的媽媽還有我的女兒,我知道媽媽她有多愛我我知道自己會多愛自己的女兒。
評分Also titled "What We Write About When We Write About Chicken Soup". Of course Albom knows the art of writing for the sake of bestselling.
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