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  • "This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone." So begins For One More Day, a novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heav ... Continue

    "This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone." So begins For One More Day, a novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. This slender fable poses a simple yet almost infinitely resonant question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? Charley Benetto's miraculous reunion with his deceased mother offers him -- and us -- a springboard into possibilities. A fiction that seems palpably real.

    

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• ― meganzing said on Sep 26, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • The story is started and ended on the title

  • If this is a true story, I would say it has some tension to catch one's eyes. Author has this idea to elaborate on "one more day" with the one you love, but he wasn't doing a good job to really make reader think about how you would like to spend this precious day with your love one.

    The protag ... Continue

    If this is a true story, I would say it has some tension to catch one's eyes. Author has this idea to elaborate on "one more day" with the one you love, but he wasn't doing a good job to really make reader think about how you would like to spend this precious day with your love one.

    The protagonist had spent most of "his day" with her mom to reflect what they had been through. Not until the last minute that he would say "sorry" about his conduct to cause himself pain for the rest of his life. The revelation has little merit besides to give himself a closure on his absence of her mom's death. He only need one minute but one full day for his purpose.

    As for so many other books, the idea is revealed for your reflection, and the story is started and ended on the title.

    

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  • A man tells the story of why he tried to commit suicide, and what happened afterward.
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    An interesting novel that had an involving plot line. I'm going to check out other titles by this author.

    

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  • Made me Cry

  • This book is amazing, and it helped give me insight into how someone else deals with death and loss- and the loss of one's own life, and value of one's own life. It really made me think, and cry, and put myself in someone else's shoes.

    

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  • For One More Day

  • A touching story about a lost soul that gets to spend one more day with the person who loves him more than anyone else.

    

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• ― Readingrat said on Dec 4, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

"Toda familia es una historia de fantasmas..."

Mitch Albom conquistó lectores en todo el mundo con los bestsellers número uno en el New York Times, Las cinco personas que encontrarás en el cielo y Martes con mi viejo profesor. Ahora regresa con esta bellísima e inolvidable novela sobre el amor familiar y las oportunidades que dejamos pasar.

Por un día más es la historia de una relación entre una madre y un hijo que dura toda una vida y mucho más. Explora la siguiente pregunta: ¿Qué harías tú si pudieras pasar un día más con un ser querido que ya no está?

De niño, Charley Benetto aprende de su padre que "Puedes ser un niño de mamá o un niño de papá. Pero no puedes ser ambas cosas a la vez." Entonces elige a su padre y lo idolatra -- hasta el día en que desaparece. A los once años, Charley queda en manos de su madre, quien muy valientemente lo cría ella sola a pesar de la vergüenza y el anhelo de Charley por ser parte de una familia completa.

Décadas más tarde, Charley es un hombre descompuesto. El alcohol y el remordimiento han ido desmoronando su vida. Pierde su trabajo. Deja a su familia. Toca fondo al descubrir que su única hija no lo invitó a su matrimonio.

Entonces decide quitarse la vida.

A medianoche emprende un viaje a su pequeño pueblo natal para acabar con su existencia. Pero al fracasar hasta en eso, se tambalea hasta su antigua casa, donde hace un increíble descubrimiento. Su madre -- que murió ocho años atrás -- aún se encuentra en la casa y lo recibe como si nada hubiera pasado.

Lo que sigue es un día "cualquiera" como el que muchos anhelamos, una oportunidad para reconciliarnos con un familiar desaparecido, para explicar secretos familiares y para buscar perdón. En algún lugar entre esta vida y la otra, Charley se entera de cosas que nunca había sabido sobre su madre y lo mucho que sacrificó. Y con su cariñosa ayuda, Charley intenta recomponer los trozos rotos de su vida.

Por medio de los inspiradores personajes y la magistral escritura de Albom, los lectores volverán a apreciar a las personas que quieren -- y creen haber perdido -- en sus propias vidas. Por un día más es un libro para cualquier miembro de la familia y que será apreciado por los millones fans de Albom en todo el mundo.

Mitch Albom es el autor de los bestsellers internacionales Las cinco personas que encontrarás en el cielo, Martes con mi viejo profesor, y de seis libros más. También escribe guiones cinematográficos y obras de teatro. Albom está en la junta directiva de diversas obras caritativas y ha fundado tres obras de caridad en el área de Detroit. Vive con su esposa, Janine, en Michigan.

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