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
这本书的简介让我很是心动, 很快的看完后发现没还多的读 后感了。不过还是赚了我的几滴眼泪,合上书后慢慢的回想 才体会到一个平常又不平凡的母亲。 特别是母亲的美丽后面的坚强, 维护自尊的代价真的很大,特别是对于女人, 一个魅力四射的女人。
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...
評分I remember once when shopping with mother, I was in a willful fit and left my mother alone in the shop, embarrassed. I remember once when I lingered at school till it got dark and on my way home I found mother, worried and agitated. I will never forget the...
評分"When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times."
評分The true love is He/she loves you whenever, wherever, whoever you are. The love is for you as you. Love is not an easy job. It requires self-sacrifice, tolerance, patience and it means you must have a solid and powerful soul to love others, expecially then...
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. ”
评分it's a simple story but touching
评分Forgive yourself. Children should never have to choose.
评分How desperate i wish to spend one more day with my dearest nanna.
评分一口氣看完,哭慘瞭
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