New York, New York, USA: Viking Penguin, 1996. CH4 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. A book about a modern superwoman who has everything except a man and she is convinced she can well do without one. She decides at the last minute to take a Jamaican vacation during which she meets a man half her age and is surprised to find that her world is well and truly rocked by him. This causes her to realize that she has come to a pivotal moment in her life where she must now deal with new and difficult questions about both her passions and life expectations. By the author of "Mama," "Disappearing Acts," "Breaking Ice," and "Waiting to Exhale." 368p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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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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Bookseller: Bookmarc's (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: SCW02086
Title: How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Author: McMillan, Terry
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
ISBN 10: 0670869902
ISBN 13: 9780670869909
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Place of Publication: New York, New York, USA
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: Literature Literary Fiction Jamaica Romance Contemporary
Bookseller catalogs: Literature / African-American Literature;
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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