The same river twice honoring the difficult : a meditation on life, spirit, art, and the making of the film, the color purple, ten years later

In the early eighties, the peaceful, reclusive life of poet and writer Alice Walker was interrupted by the appearance of three extraordinary gifts: a widely praised best-selling novel (The Color Purple), the Pulitzer Prize, and an offer from Steven Spielberg to make her novel into a film that would...

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Main Author: Walker, Alice, 1944- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, [1996]
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Table of Contents:
  • Fish and bird come to my house : I swim away with them
  • The river : honoring the difficult
  • Being the river
  • The color purple : a synopsis for film
  • Confluence and flow
  • What is thrown out of the river
  • Rapids
  • Deep waters
  • Running the river
  • Some swim on tears to be with us
  • Mud
  • Crossing : perseverance
  • The river run
  • Still waters.