Terry McMillan
Forfatter af Waiting to Exhale
Om forfatteren
Terry McMillan was born in Port Huron, Michigan on October 18, 1951. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, studied film at Columbia University, and enrolled in the Harlem Writer's Guild. Her books include Disappearing Acts, Mama, A Day vis mere Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, Getting to Happy, and Who Asked You? Her books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back were adapted as major motion pictures. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Serier
Værker af Terry McMillan
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Redaktør; Bidragyder — 274 eksemplarer
Associated Works
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Bidragyder — 180 eksemplarer
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Bidragyder — 159 eksemplarer
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Bidragyder — 114 eksemplarer
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 99 eksemplarer
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Bidragyder — 75 eksemplarer
Did My Mama Like to Dance? and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters (1994) — Bidragyder — 40 eksemplarer
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993) (1993) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- McMillan, Terry Lynn
- Fødselsdato
- 1951-10-18
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Port Huron, Michigan, USA
- Bopæl
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of California, Berkeley (BS|1979)
Columbia University (MFA)
Harlem Writer's Guild - Erhverv
- novelist
editor
professor - Relationer
- McMillan, Rosalyn (sister)
- Organisationer
- University of Arizona
Medlemmer
Anmeldelser
Waiting to Exhale
Friendship
I liked it. I didn't love it as I did Waiting to Exhale. It didn't flow as well as the first one.
This was a book club read for January 2024. I finished the book in December. I really enjoyed this book and the story of the friends.
I appreciate a romance that is acerbically funny rather than cloying and this one gets bonus points for a main character and her romantic interests who are middle aged and dealing with all the life issues that go with it. The characters, their relationships, and the events felt real and not too improbable and the dialogue was snappy. I enjoyed it so much that it mostly overcame the usual fatal flaw of having been written in first person, present tense. Normally, I’ll DNF those immediately, but I was actually able to forget the style and fall into the story for the most part.
Audiobook, borrowed from my public library. Audiobooks read by the author tend to be pretty hit/miss, but MacMillan did a terrific reading, especially with the dialogue.… (mere)
Audiobook, borrowed from my public library. Audiobooks read by the author tend to be pretty hit/miss, but MacMillan did a terrific reading, especially with the dialogue.… (mere)
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Statistikker
- Værker
- 25
- Also by
- 19
- Medlemmer
- 7,436
- Popularitet
- #3,291
- Vurdering
- 3.7
- Anmeldelser
- 224
- ISBN
- 280
- Sprog
- 14
- Udvalgt
- 10
