Waiting to Exhale

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WAITING TO EXHALE
''Hilarious, irreverent Terry McMillan's heroines observe men—and contemporary America—with bawdy humor, occasional melancholy and great affection thoroughly entertaining; "
—Susan Isaacs, The New York Times Book Review 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 teenaged son, other... Tovább

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WAITING TO EXHALE
''Hilarious, irreverent Terry McMillan's heroines observe men—and contemporary America—with bawdy humor, occasional melancholy and great affection thoroughly entertaining; "
—Susan Isaacs, The New York Times Book Review 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 teenaged son, other people's hair, and food. Her social and emotional bank accounts are low, but a sweet surprise 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 foil of zest, and please, a slow, tender; passionate lover—and could he already be what he aspired to?" "WAITING'TO EXHALÉ tracks four black thirty-something women friends waiting for the men who will finally make things right While the culture and vernacular of the book reflect the black middle class, the struggles—with love, family, food, work, money—are universal." —Vogue
"WAITING TO EXHALE reveal(s) what it is like to come of middle age in an America where husbands and lovers, like serial killers, move on SHARP, DYNAMIC, AND funny as hell." —New York Daily News Vissza