Every family is a ghost story ...' As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both.' So he chooses his father, only to see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after discovering he won't be invited to his only daughter's wedding. And he decides to take his own life. Charley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing discovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there, and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened. What follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for: a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets and to seek forgiveness.
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Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary Cecilia Ahern Mitch Albom, in this new book, once again demonstrates why he is one of my favourite writers ... FOR ONE MORE DAY will make you smile. It will make you wistful. It will make you blink back tears of nostalgia James McBride, author of THE COLOR OF WATER Another very touching page-turner STAR magazine A warm and tender tale IRISH EVENING HERALD
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'Every family is a ghost story ...' As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both.' So he chooses his father, only to see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after discovering he won't be invited to his only daughter's wedding. And he decides to take his own life. Charley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing discovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there, and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened. What follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for: a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets and to seek forgiveness.
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4 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Von La-Crima
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The day before yesterday I bought this book and finished it 2hours later. I was stuck on it and couldn't stop reading. I took it to the university for my free lesson but in fact I finished it even before that time :-)
This book is just tightening you into the chair and you feel involved as if you were watching it from the bird's perspective. It makes you think abot your own family and how it would be if you got the chance to go back to the day when everything changed.
By now I read The Five People You Meet In Heaven and Tuesdays With Morrie and I have to say that each of these works was like a journey into myself.
I'm always sad when I come to the end because I really long to stay in Albom's world "for one more day"...honestly
Just sit back, relax, think and have tissues ready, you are likely to need them.
This book is just tightening you into the chair and you feel involved as if you were watching it from the bird's perspective. It makes you think abot your own family and how it would be if you got the chance to go back to the day when everything changed.
By now I read The Five People You Meet In Heaven and Tuesdays With Morrie and I have to say that each of these works was like a journey into myself.
I'm always sad when I come to the end because I really long to stay in Albom's world "for one more day"...honestly
Just sit back, relax, think and have tissues ready, you are likely to need them.
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Von StefanieEmmy
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Format:Taschenbuch
Charley "Chick" Benetto hat sein Leben in eine Sackgase manövriert. Mit Alkohol und ohne Job und Familie braucht es nur einen Anstoss, um ihn zu einer endgültigen Entscheidung zu bewegen. Das passiert, als er erfährt, dass er nicht zur Hochzeit seiner einzigen Tochter eingeladen wird. Chick Benetto will sich das Leben nehmen.
Doch kaum stürzt er sich vom alten Wasserturm in seiner Geburtsstadt, befindet er sich plötzlich zusammen mit seiner verstorbenen Mutter in deren alten Haus. Chick erhält die Chance, die er sich seit ihrem Tod gewünscht hat: Einen letzten Tag mit seiner Mutter verbringen, um all das Ungesagte gesagt zu machen.
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Leider ist es gerade etwas schwierig einen ausführlichen Bericht über dieses wundervolle Buch zu schreiben, weil es schon fast 3 Monate her ist, dass ich es gelesen habe. Ich werde trotzdem mein Bestes geben und in den Tiefen meines Gedächtnisses graben.
Wie von Mitch Albom gewohnt steigt er auch bei "For one more day" direkt in die Handlung ein. Sein Protagonist spricht den Leser offen an, er erzählt freigibig über sein Schicksal.
Der Charakter des Chick Benetto hat sehr viele Ecken und Kanten, aber als Leser merkt man schon bald, dass er eigentlich nur ein bisschen Starthilfe bräuchte, dann würde alles wieder glatt fü ihn laufen. Diese Starthilfe erhält er schließlich von seiner Mutter, die ihn auf einen ihrer völlig normalen Tage mitnimmt. Erst da erkennt Chick, wie sehr er sich in den letzten Lebensjahren seiner Mutter von ihr distanziert hat.
Das Buch möchte ich vor allem denjenigen unter euch empfehlen, die auf schöne Sprache Wert legen.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
Doch kaum stürzt er sich vom alten Wasserturm in seiner Geburtsstadt, befindet er sich plötzlich zusammen mit seiner verstorbenen Mutter in deren alten Haus. Chick erhält die Chance, die er sich seit ihrem Tod gewünscht hat: Einen letzten Tag mit seiner Mutter verbringen, um all das Ungesagte gesagt zu machen.
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Leider ist es gerade etwas schwierig einen ausführlichen Bericht über dieses wundervolle Buch zu schreiben, weil es schon fast 3 Monate her ist, dass ich es gelesen habe. Ich werde trotzdem mein Bestes geben und in den Tiefen meines Gedächtnisses graben.
Wie von Mitch Albom gewohnt steigt er auch bei "For one more day" direkt in die Handlung ein. Sein Protagonist spricht den Leser offen an, er erzählt freigibig über sein Schicksal.
Der Charakter des Chick Benetto hat sehr viele Ecken und Kanten, aber als Leser merkt man schon bald, dass er eigentlich nur ein bisschen Starthilfe bräuchte, dann würde alles wieder glatt fü ihn laufen. Diese Starthilfe erhält er schließlich von seiner Mutter, die ihn auf einen ihrer völlig normalen Tage mitnimmt. Erst da erkennt Chick, wie sehr er sich in den letzten Lebensjahren seiner Mutter von ihr distanziert hat.
Das Buch möchte ich vor allem denjenigen unter euch empfehlen, die auf schöne Sprache Wert legen.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
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Von Donald Mitchell
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Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This kind and generous book is a mini version of The Five People You Meet in Heaven for revisiting your life to develop another perspective on it. In this case, Charley Benetto comes to see his mother through different eyes. A self-sacrificing woman, Pauline (Posey), had shielded Charley from all of the challenges their little family had faced. All that Charley knew was that his beloved Dad had moved out when Charley was young and didn't reappear in his life until his college years.
The set-up is pretty extreme. Charley goes to pieces after his mother dies. He drinks too much. He loses his money. He drives away his wife and daughter. He loses all his desire to live. Hitting bottom, Charley decides to kill himself. He heads back towards his old home town . . . and finds many surprises . . . including another day with his deceased mother.
The core of the book's appeal is the deft way that Mr. Albom captures the ambiguity many sons have towards the support they receive from their Mothers, while the Mothers are acting like the saints they often are. A good secondary appeal is the gradual exposure of deeply buried family secrets.
It's that latter point that I would like to address a little more. Families keep secrets from children for all kinds of good reasons. But children do become adults, and somewhere along the way the relationships will be improved if the secrets are revealed. You cannot hope to believe in Santa Claus all of your life in the same way you did as a five-year-old. If your parents are still alive (and I hope they will be for many years to come), think about what you don't understand about what they did when you were young. Ask them to tell you the answers. You'll all grow closer in the process.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
The set-up is pretty extreme. Charley goes to pieces after his mother dies. He drinks too much. He loses his money. He drives away his wife and daughter. He loses all his desire to live. Hitting bottom, Charley decides to kill himself. He heads back towards his old home town . . . and finds many surprises . . . including another day with his deceased mother.
The core of the book's appeal is the deft way that Mr. Albom captures the ambiguity many sons have towards the support they receive from their Mothers, while the Mothers are acting like the saints they often are. A good secondary appeal is the gradual exposure of deeply buried family secrets.
It's that latter point that I would like to address a little more. Families keep secrets from children for all kinds of good reasons. But children do become adults, and somewhere along the way the relationships will be improved if the secrets are revealed. You cannot hope to believe in Santa Claus all of your life in the same way you did as a five-year-old. If your parents are still alive (and I hope they will be for many years to come), think about what you don't understand about what they did when you were young. Ask them to tell you the answers. You'll all grow closer in the process.... Lesen Sie weiter... ›
3 von 8 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Von Jan Herud
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Habe beide Vorgänger gelesen und bin zu dem Schluss gekommen dass Mitch Albom nun aufhören darf. Seine immer autobiografischen Bücher sind zwar mitreissend geschrieben, und wahrscheinlich, wenn man nur eines liest, wunderbar. Aber bei diesem Buch bekam ich das Gefühl, dass Albom auf seinen Lorbeeren ausruht und einfach nur Geld machen möchte.
Der Plot ist spannend und ich hätte wirklich mehr erwartet.
Der Plot ist spannend und ich hätte wirklich mehr erwartet.
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