"Tuesdays with Morrie"

Book Review # 118186

Literature > American

A review of the book "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom.

1,077 words () | 1 source | MLA | 2009 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper summarizes and reviews Mitch Albom's 1997 non-fiction novel "Tuesdays with Morrie" about Albom's reunion with his favorite university professor Morrie Schwartz. Albom meets with Morrie who has ALS, regularly on Tuesdays, and the paper describes how, through these meetings, Albom goes through a profound and bittersweet journey of remembering. The author sums the book as one that finds its most creative energies in the acknowledgement of failures - to learn, to keep in touch, to follow one's heart.

From the Paper:

"One of the most popular non-fiction titles of the 1990s, Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie is a book of profound remembering, as the author recalls and reconnects with his favorite university professor, the titular figure Morrie Schwartz, years after the two part ways in the spring of 1979. The reunion, sparked by a chance viewing of the aging professor on Ted Koppel's "Nightline," is bittersweet. For the former student (and book's author), life has been a series of compromises and settlings, as he abandons his love of music for a well-paid job with a Detroit newspaper and is watching his marriage slide toward complacency and neglect."