TY - BOOK AU - Albom,Mitch TI - The five people you meet in heaven SN - 1401308589 (pbk.) AV - PS3601.L335 F59 2006 U1 - 813.6 21 PY - 2006///] CY - New York PB - Hyperion KW - Accident victims KW - Fiction KW - Amusement parks KW - Amusement rides KW - Future life KW - Older men KW - Heaven KW - Death KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft N1 - "Hyperion...March...2006"--Amazon.com N2 - "Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It s a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie s five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his meaningless life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: Why was I here?"--Publisher description ER -