A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Much-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan's tour-de-force novel introduces the Price family-matriarch Viola, her sometimes-husband Cecil, and their four adult kids, each of whom sees life-and one another-through thick and thin, and entirely on their own terms. With her hallmark exuberance...
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Much-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan's tour-de-force novel introduces the Price family-matriarch Viola, her sometimes-husband Cecil, and their four adult kids, each of whom sees life-and one another-through thick and thin, and entirely on their own terms. With her hallmark exuberance and cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451211088 (0451211081)
Publish date: January 6th 2004
Publisher: NAL Trade
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
African American,
Drama,
Family,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Womens
This story is about the Price family. We get to meet them, warts and all, chapter by chapter. The first chapter introduces us to Viola, the matriarch of the family. Viola, in the hospital suffering from a massive asthma attack, is wearied and worried by her spouse and her offspring. In her first-per...
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