How Stella got Her Groove Back - Hardcover

McMillan, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670869902 ISBN 13: 9780670869909

Publisher: Viking, 1996

Synopsis

Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW, and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind it too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love - and all of love's nasty fallout - anyway. But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core - not just by the relaxing effects of the sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's tall, lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean - and is half her age. The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it. Told in Stella's own exuberant, dead-on, dead honest voice, How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life - and what she must risk to do it.

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Review:

"Will make you laugh out loud...Likeable characters, funny lines, smart repartee, and a warm...ending. Irreverent, mischievous, diverting."

"The novel sparkles."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"A riotous, sexy book ... told in the inimitable voice of Stella, who will charm the reader from the first page. ... Fans and first-time readers will be hooked."
--Richmond Times Dispatch

"A confessional, sister-can-you-understand-this open diary ... I laughed out loud."
--Boston Globe

"Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read ... who makes me glad to be a woman."
--Liesl Schillinger, Washington Post Book World

"A sexy handbook of self-realization."
--The New Yorker

"The novel sparkles."
Chicago Sun-Times

"A riotous, sexy book ... told in the inimitable voice of Stella, who will charm the reader from the first page. ... Fans and first-time readers will be hooked."
Richmond Times Dispatch

"A confessional, sister-can-you-understand-this open diary ... I laughed out loud."
Boston Globe

"Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read ... who makes me glad to be a woman."
Liesl Schillinger, Washington Post Book World

"A sexy handbook of self-realization."
The New Yorker"

"The novel sparkles."
Chicago Sun-Times

"A riotous, sexy book ... told in the inimitable voice of Stella, who will charm the reader from the first page. ... Fans and first-time readers will be hooked."
Richmond Times Dispatch

"A confessional, sister-can-you-understand-this open diary ... I laughed out loud."
Boston Globe

"Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read ... who makes me glad to be a woman."
Liesl Schillinger, Washington Post Book World

"A sexy handbook of self-realization."
The New Yorker

"

"The novel sparkles."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"A riotous, sexy book ... told in the inimitable voice of Stella, who will charm the reader from the first page. ... Fans and first-time readers will be hooked."
--Richmond Times Dispatch

"A confessional, sister-can-you-understand-this open diary ... I laughed out loud."
--Boston Globe

"Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read ... who makes me glad to be a woman."
--Liesl Schillinger, Washington Post Book World

"A sexy handbook of self-realization."
--The New Yorker

-The novel sparkles.-
--Chicago Sun-Times

-A riotous, sexy book ... told in the inimitable voice of Stella, who will charm the reader from the first page. ... Fans and first-time readers will be hooked.-
--Richmond Times Dispatch

-A confessional, sister-can-you-understand-this open diary ... I laughed out loud.-
--Boston Globe

-Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read ... who makes me glad to be a woman.-
--Liesl Schillinger, Washington Post Book World

-A sexy handbook of self-realization.-
--The New Yorker

About the Author:

Terry McMillan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, I Almost Forgot About You, and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Four of Ms. McMillan's novels have been made into movies: Waiting to Exhale (Twentieth Century Fox, 1995); How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Twentieth Century Fox, 1998); Disappearing Acts (HBO Pictures, 1999); and A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Lifetime, 2014). She lives in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0670869902
• ISBN 13: 9780670869909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384