Disappearing Acts - Hardcover

McMillan, Terry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670824615 ISBN 13: 9780670824618

Publisher: Viking, 1989

Synopsis

When Franklin, a young construction worker, meets Zora, a struggling singer from Ohio, neither is certain they can make the sacrifices and commitments needed to build love.

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Review:

"If Ntozake Shange, Jane Austen, and Danielle Steel collaborated on a novel of manners, [Disappearing Acts] might be the result." --New Yorker

"Contains someting increasingly rare in books or films today: a full-blown, sophisticated love affair between two African-American adults." --Denver Post

"A funny, earthy novel...ribaldly realistic. [Speaks] across class and color lines." --New York Newsday

"A down-to-earth portrayal of love, yearning, and self-preservation...brimming with energy and the hard facts of life." --Kansas City Star

"Gripping and moving...intensely realistic." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

-If Ntozake Shange, Jane Austen, and Danielle Steel collaborated on a novel of manners, [Disappearing Acts] might be the result.- --New Yorker

-Contains someting increasingly rare in books or films today: a full-blown, sophisticated love affair between two African-American adults.- --Denver Post

-A funny, earthy novel...ribaldly realistic. [Speaks] across class and color lines.- --New York Newsday

-A down-to-earth portrayal of love, yearning, and self-preservation...brimming with energy and the hard facts of life.- --Kansas City Star

-Gripping and moving...intensely realistic.- --Cleveland Plain Dealer

From the Back Cover:

Franklin's tired of women, tired of trouble. He's young, he's six-feet-four and he likes to pump iron. But his ex-wife's riding him for money to keep their two children, and there's no security in construction work. Not in New York anyway, and especially not if you're black. All Franklin really wants is to stay together, stay in work and, most of all, stay out of love.

And Zora. She's a music teacher, fresh from Ohio, looking for that one big break as a singer-songwriter. She's going to get an apartment, get fit, and get her first songs down on a demo tape. The last thing she wants is to disappear into another relationship, and wind up with another broken heart.

But when Franklin sees Zora and Zora sees Franklin, none of it means a damn. Everything - their pasts, their independence, their plans - evaporates in the electric charge of one of the most passionate, turbulent and memorable affairs in contemporary fiction...

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0670824615
• ISBN 13: 9780670824618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400