Waiting To Exhale
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Four Black women — Savannah, Bernadine, Robin, and Gloria — are done waiting for their lives to begin, and Waiting to Exhale chronicles their fierce, funny, and deeply human search for love, respect, and fulfillment in late-twentieth-century America. Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Phoenix, Arizona, Terry McMillan's landmark 1992 novel captures these women navigating careers, broken marriages, faithless men, and the unshakeable bonds of female friendship with a voice that crackles with wit, warmth, and unflinching honesty. McMillan's prose is bracingly direct, anchored in the rhythms of authentic Black women's voices and grounded in the everyday triumphs and heartbreaks that mainstream fiction had long overlooked. Waiting to Exhale argues, with both humor and pathos, that sisterhood is not merely a comfort — it is a lifeline — and its cultural impact was so seismic that it reshaped the publishing landscape, proving that stories centred on Black women's inner lives commanded a vast, hungry readership. A celebrated bestseller and the basis for the iconic 1995 film, this novel leaves you wondering not just whether these four women will find what they are looking for, but whether any of us truly know what it means to finally, fully breathe.
Author: Terry Mcmillan
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Four Black women — Savannah, Bernadine, Robin, and Gloria — are done waiting for their lives to begin, and Waiting to Exhale chronicles their fierce, funny, and deeply human search for love, respect, and fulfillment in late-twentieth-century America. Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Phoenix, Arizona, Terry McMillan's landmark 1992 novel captures these women navigating careers, broken marriages, faithless men, and the unshakeable bonds of female friendship with a voice that crackles with wit, warmth, and unflinching honesty. McMillan's prose is bracingly direct, anchored in the rhythms of authentic Black women's voices and grounded in the everyday triumphs and heartbreaks that mainstream fiction had long overlooked. Waiting to Exhale argues, with both humor and pathos, that sisterhood is not merely a comfort — it is a lifeline — and its cultural impact was so seismic that it reshaped the publishing landscape, proving that stories centred on Black women's inner lives commanded a vast, hungry readership. A celebrated bestseller and the basis for the iconic 1995 film, this novel leaves you wondering not just whether these four women will find what they are looking for, but whether any of us truly know what it means to finally, fully breathe.