I got a little teared up at his performance of Morrie's struggling, breathless words towards the end of his life. PERFORMANCE - Mitch performs his own work and does a great job. Mitch taped their meetings for further reference, so at the end of the book the listener is treated to a few actual discussions with Morrie's actual voice. The second is Mitch's visits to Morrie's bedside - every Tuesday - as they talk about Morrie's life and what he has learned from it. The first is Mitch and Morrie's past relationship as teacher/student.

The book jumps back and forth between two time lines.

Normal days doing things you enjoy with people you love are priceless. Money, possessions and social status are worthless. Bottom line is that, as he lay dying, Morrie was able to more clearly realize what is important in life. Morrie wants Mitch to write his final thesis and to share Morrie's philosophy of life with the world (which has happened.the book is a best seller printed in many languages.) There are lots of lessons to be learned from this book. Morrie is an old man withering away from ALS, and he had been Mitch's favorite teacher in college. STORY (true) - This is a wonderful story about two men, a teacher and a student, who have reunited after many years. Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch 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, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.įor Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. “A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”- Los Angeles Times

A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives-with a new afterword by the author.

Tuesdays with morrie