The movie "Rich in Love" is based on a novel written by Anne Tyler in 1988. Anne Tyler won the Pulitzer Prize for literature for this novel in 1989.
The movie "Rich in Love" is based on a novel written by Anne Tyler in 1988. Anne Tyler won the Pulitzer Prize for literature for this novel in 1989.
Here is the summary of the novel from the back cover:
"Breathing Lessons covers the events of a day in the life of Maggie Moran, nearing fifty, married to Ira and with two children. her eternal optimism and er inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested one hot summer day. Maggie and Ira drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of the husband of Serena, Maggie's childhood friend. During the course of the journey, with its several unexpected detours -- into the lives of old friends and grown children -- Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage: the expectations; the disappointments; the way children can create storms a family; the way that everything -- and nothing -- changes."
Screen caps of the movie are here at the gallery.
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