Supposedly this is a true story, with the dead husband telling the story through a medium. It was about how he was trying to help his wife while she was in purgatory. She had commited suicide because she wanted to be with her husband. But because suicide is an answer to her problems, she had to stay in that "state" until her destined date to pass.
2006-06-22 14:55:51 · 14 answers · asked by Sept1854 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I do not know if it is a book but I know it is a movie "What dreams may come"
2006-06-22 15:00:08 · answer #1 · answered by Mrs. Mac 4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Richard Matheson wrote the novel "What Dreams May Come."
*Kirkus Reviews* A pleasant but undramatic travelogue of the afterlife, blending Kubler-Ross and Raymond Moody with Arthur Ford, Ruth Montgomery, and theosophist Bishop Leadbeater, among others. Matheson has refrained from the Gothic impulse and tried to orchestrate his occult and spiritualist research into a halfway believable story. Chris Nielson, a writer, is severely injured in an automobile pile-up and dies at the hospital. Even while attending his own funeral he finds it hard to accept the fact of the afterlife. His spirit guide Robert, a family member who died years ago, takes Chris under his wing and leads him about the new world, explaining how houses are built on the thought-plane, the botanical peculiarities, why the lake waters have such strange density and energy (they're just mind-stuff), and so on. The twist comes when Chris' beloved wife Ann kills herself in despair and goes to the plane of suicides. She is his soulmate and he must help her. So he gets Robert to take him through the lower regions, hells within hells, until they arrive at a reproduction of the Nielson home, now fallen into hopelessly chaotic disrepair, where Ann's soul lives in dark sludge. The two-person recognition scene holds the novel's only dramatic fire: will Chris spend Ann's 25-year unexpired life-term with her in this house? More plot and less metageography would have made a stronger book, but the inspirational values should carry this essay-novel to eager readers of the life-after-death nonfiction field.
(Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 1978)
2006-06-22 22:09:38 · answer #2 · answered by mingjoslyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was What dreams may come. I saw the movie and there was a type of medium. In the movie Cuba Gooding Jr was his type of guide. The main actor was Robin Williams and although I never knew there was an actual book on it the movie was outstanding!!! I recomend that if you havent already seen it go get it. It was awesome. I will be on the lookout for the book!!
2006-06-22 22:00:36 · answer #3 · answered by lvb524 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know of the book yet, but thier is a movie that might reveal more info. It stared Robin Williams, and was called "What Dreams May Come" This was an excellent movie. If you find it the case or cover might state what it was based on, truth or fiction.
2006-06-22 22:36:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anntoinette M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here it is. It was also a great movie!
What Dreams May Come
by Richard Matheson -
The "New York Times" bestseller
A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND HELL
What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie. Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death.
But even Heaven is not complete without Annie, and when tragedy threatens to divide them forever, Chris risks his very soul to save Annie from an eternity of despair.
Richard Matheson's powerful tale of life---and love---after death was the basis for the Oscar-winning film starring Robin Williams.
2006-06-22 22:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by Planet Progress 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure of a book, but the movie "What Dreams May Come" with Robin Williams hints to the same storyline.
2006-06-22 22:00:49 · answer #6 · answered by reflectdesigns 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are definately talking about the book "What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson. The movie by the same name starring Robin Williams was based on it.
2006-06-23 10:24:53 · answer #7 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Dreams may come with Robin Williams
2006-06-22 21:59:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anna M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/
it's a movie called What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra
2006-06-22 21:59:23 · answer #9 · answered by magrelle2126 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Midnight in he Garden of Good and Evil, I believe. It became a movie with Robin Williams and Sally Field.
2006-06-22 21:56:41 · answer #10 · answered by Nuwanda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Dreams May Come
2006-06-22 22:42:10 · answer #11 · answered by Arlene 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋