McMillan, Terry:Waiting to Exhale
- Paperback 1995, ISBN: 0671537458
[EAN: 9780671537456], Used, very good, [PU: Pocket Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.], PHOENIX ARIZ FICTION AFRO AMERICANS ARIZONA ROMANCE CONTEMPORARY FRIENDSHIP, A paperback in very good cond… More...
[EAN: 9780671537456], Used, very good, [PU: Pocket Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.], PHOENIX ARIZ FICTION AFRO AMERICANS ARIZONA ROMANCE CONTEMPORARY FRIENDSHIP, A paperback in very good condition. A great novel from a master storyteller. This book captures what life and love are all about. Talk about timing! With relations between African-American men and women in the spotlight as never before, here comes McMillan's report from the front: her bawdy, vibrant, deliciously readable third novel (Mama, Disappearing Acts) is the story of four black women friends and their frequently disastrous encounters with black men. The four are in their mid-to-late 30s, middle-class women making good money, and they live in Phoenix. Savannah, who has everything she wants except a man, has just moved from Denver, partly to be close to best friend Bernadine, whose 11-year-old marriage has collapsed. Super-successful ``buppie'' (black yuppie) John has tricked Bernadine every which way, but his greatest betrayal is crossing the color line to snare a California blond; now Bernadine must raise their two kids alone. Her friends Robin and Gloria are not having any better luck: Robin is a backsliding bubblehead whose study of astrology has not cured her weakness for ``pretty men with big dicks'' who use and abuse her, while the only male in overweight, matronly Gloria's life is her teenage son Tarik, a source of both anxiety and pride. We watch these women in a swirl of motion: working, partying, dishing, dating, and consoling each other on their misfortunes with men. Their consensus is that ``black men play too many games'' and are terrified of making commitments, even if they're buppies (``riffraff comes in all kinds of packages''). Two points here: First, McMillan's novel is not indiscriminately bashing brothers--there are good men out there (both Bernadine and Gloria have fine prospects by the end), and women cannot escape all the blame (Savannah's inability to say the three magic words costs her dearly). Second, these women do not mope. The story's best scene has them falling-down drunk at Gloria's hilarious birthday party; indeed, they are as timeless as Molly Bloom or the Wife of Bath in their robust sensuality. A novel that hits so many exposed nerves is sure to be a conversation-piece: it has heart and pizzazz and even, yes, the sweet smell of the breakthrough book., Books<
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Terry McMillan:Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
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ROBIN STOKES is a successful insurance professional recovering from a dead-end love affair. ""They say love is a two-way street. But I don't believe it because the one I've been on for th… More...
ROBIN STOKES is a successful insurance professional recovering from a dead-end love affair. ""They say love is a two-way street. But I don't believe it because the one I've been on for the last two years was a dirt road." After months of depression, shopping and dating all the wrong men, she's getting by with a little help from her friends -- and still determined to find the Real Thing...BERNADINE HARRIS has the kids, the house, and the BMW, but a young white bookkeeper has her husband. Now, propped by her prescription for Xanax and her first pack of cigarettes in 106 days, she's entering a whole new world....GLORIA MATTHEWS owns one of the few stylish beauty salons for black women in Phoenix, and finds solace in religion, her teenage son, other people's hair, and food. Her social and emotional bank accounts are low, but a sweet suprise is about to open up her life....SAVANNAH JACKSON is a public relations executive -- educated, attractive, and unmarried. On the verge of moving to her fourth city in fifteen years, she's lobbying the Lord, "Could You send me a decent man? Could he be full of zest, and please, a slow, tender, passionate lover -- and could he already be what he aspired to?" Media >, [PU: Simon & Schuster]<
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McMillan, Terry:Waiting to Exhale
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New York: Pocket Books, 2001-11-27. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 400 pages; edge wear; At 36 Savannah Jackson seems to have it made. She's attractive, she's got a job in TV… More...
New York: Pocket Books, 2001-11-27. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 400 pages; edge wear; At 36 Savannah Jackson seems to have it made. She's attractive, she's got a job in TV, money in the bank and a nice home, in fact she has everything she needs except a man. In their different ways, each of her three best friends face exactly the same problem., Pocket Books, 2001-11-27, 3<
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