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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes the contemporary classic of women, triumph, revenge, and comradeship in a special new trade edition. McMillan's tale of four thirty-something women supporting each other through thick and thin-and through the frustrating search for a... read more
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Summary edit
Four thirty-something African-American women console and support one another in a complex friendship that helps each of them face the middle of her life as a single woman.
Characters/People edit
- Savannah Jackson: Savannah Jackson is a successful television producer who holds on to the belief that one day her married lover will leave his wife for her.
- Bernadine Harris: Bernadine Harris abandoned her own career and desires of having a catering business to raise a family. Her husband is now leaving her for a white woman.
- Robin Stokes: Robin Stokes is a high powered executive and the long-time mistress of Russell. After dumping him she has problems finding a decent man of her own.
- Gloria Matthews: Gloria Matthews is a beauty salon owner and single mother raising a teenage son who is preparing to leave home and travel the world. After years alone, she falls in love with a new neighbor, Marvin King.
First Sentence edit
Right now I'm supposed to be all geeked up because I'm getting ready for a New Year's Eve party that some guy named Lionel invited me to.
Table of Contents edit
1. Not Dick Clark
2. Suddenly Single
3. Forget What I Just Said
4. Unanswered Prayers
5. Fire
6. Fat
7. Interstate Lust
8. Discovery
9. Venus in Virgo
10. Happy Hour
11. Freedom of Expression
12. Steam
13. Control
14. It Ain't About Nothin'
15. BWOTM
16. Why Are You Here?
17. Rebounding
18. Killing Time
19. New Territory
20. Closer to the Bone
21. Drunk
22. Monsoon
23. To Heaven and Back
24. Still Waves it In
25. Unreasonable Requests
26. Frienship
27. The Weight of all Things
28. Back to Life
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 2 in Waiting to Exhale. (standard series)
Followed by Getting to Happy.
This is book 9 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1992. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Mexico, and followed by All Around the Town.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Terry McMillan (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0670839809
Page Count: 409
Publisher: Viking Penguin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0670839809
Page Count: 409
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3563.C3868W35 1992
- Dewey: 813'.54-dc20
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Movie Connections edit
- Waiting to Exhale (IMDb): 1995
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