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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
violetquill
Dec 16, 2011
This is a wonderful book chronicling the author's journey of making her novel The Color Purple, into a film. Interesting coincidences such as the character of Shug Avery being played by an actress named Margaret Avery. Another example is that the character of Harpo's wife was played by Oprah Winfrey (with Harpo being Oprah spelled backwards). Interesting that the novel with all its characters, was written in 1982, and the film was not made until 1985.