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A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
  • “Every life has one true-love snapshot.”
  • “Fairness doesn't govern life and death. For if it did, no good man would ever die young.”
  • “Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
  • “"Strangers," the Blue Man said,"are just family you have yet to come to know."”

First Sentence

ESTE RELATO ES SOBRE UN hombre que se llamaba Eddie y empieza por el final, con Eddie muriendo al sol.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Mitch Albom (Author)
 

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  • The Five Jerks You Meet on Earth

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