How Stella got Her Groove Back (Penguin audiobooks)

McMillan, Terry

ISBN 10: 0140863761 ISBN 13: 9780140863765

Publisher: Penguin, 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.

About this title

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

Synopsis:

Stella Payne is 42, beautiful and divorced. She works as a high-powered investment analyst while raising her son. A dedicated mother and career woman, she has little time to think of love and even less energy to get involved. That is until she meets a man half her age on a Jamaican holiday.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140863761
• ISBN 13: 9780140863765
• Binding: Audio Cassette