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A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Terry McMillan
2001 02870291 Hard Cover. NEW/NEW. 6 x 9". Terry McMillan's novels feature chatty, catty narrators who have a story they're just busting to tell you. The dominant voice in A Day Late and a Dollar Short is Viola Price, whose asthma just sent her to the ICU. And who came to visit? The Jheri Curl-wearing Cecil, "a bad habit I've had for thirty-eight years, which would make him my husband." Viola doesn't think Cecil's such a catch: " ...His midlife crisis done lasted about 20 years now," and "to set the record straight, Cecil look like he about four months pregnant." But somebody did catch Cecil--he recently left Viola for "some welfare huzzy" with three kids. And, as we soon find out in Cecil's first-person chapter, Viola has abundant flaws of her own. McMillan deftly sketches the exasperated intimacy of the long and unsuccessfully married. She also has great dish about family dynamics. Have Cecil and Viola's kids got problems! When lovable, luck-free Lewis turns up to visit his mom, he's drunk, broke, and still whining about his ex, Donnetta, who "didn't have as much sense as a Christmas turkey" (though she did have the sense to dump Lewis). Now Lewis consoles himself with his Bobbing Betty doll. "How could somebody with an IQ of 146 be so stupid?" marvels Viola. And that Charlotte! Viola's daughter is "a bossy wench from the word go." (Gee, where could she have gotten that trait?) Charlotte feels like she never got her fair share of attention, having been born 10 months after the eldest daughter, Paris (now the driven mom of a brilliant athlete whose white girlfriend claims she's pregnant). Charlotte took it out on younger Lewis and Janelle, who's been in college 15 years with no degree in sight. ... At first, you'll make ample use of the family charts in the endpapers to figure out who's who, but pretty soon you'll feel right at home with the squabbling, multiply dysfunctional, ultimately loving Price clan. You may agree with Viola: "Some folks got some stuff that can top ours. Hell, look at the Kennedys." .. 432 pages.
Hard Cover As New Condition
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10.00 USD
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BREAKING ICE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN FICTION
McMillan, Terry
1990 42400 From The Critics Publishers Weekly This hefty collection of short stories and excerpts from novels by what McMillan ( Disappearing Acts ) terms ``a new generation of African-American writers" answers an anthology's highest call: it tantalizes. However briefly, each voice here sparkles. Amiri Baraka's ``Mondongo," a tale of a bookish Air Force doctor out for a night on the town in a Puerto Rican village, is a tour de force--making brilliant use of an oppressive, sad, but witty military vernacular. Nathaniel Mackey's ``Djbot Baghostus' Run," wherein members of a jazz band all dream the same dream and recite parts of it to each other, is a foot-tapping linguistic jam session. Misthis is correct/pk Hazel, the protagonist in Toni Cade Bambara's story ``My Man Bovanne," is an older but by no means wiser woman--``the hussy my daughter always say I was"--whose delight in sex and gossip sends her private rantings into the realm of pure rhythm. These tales mix politics and pleasure in the best of ways, using good storytelling to transmit their messages. Colleen McElroy (``Sister Detroit"), for example, views one Detroit woman's obsession with her husband's automobile as a metaphor for the effects of racism and the Vietnam War. One quibble: the volume would have benefited from a clear distinction between the short stories and the excerpts. Penguin Group (USA) 0-14-011697-4 / 9780140116977
Soft Cover As New Condition New York, N.Y., U.S.A.
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21.83 USD
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