Synopsis
Stella Payne lives in a beautiful house near San Francisco, with her 11-year-old son Quincy. She works as a financial systems analyst for a salary that most would salivate over. She chose her career at the behest of her now ex-husband, who convinced Stella to leave her art-furniture business for something more lucrative. When Quincy goes to visit his father, Stella decides, on a whim, to go to Jamaica for nine days. There, she finds Winston Shakespeare, a 20-year-old chef's assistant who arouses her passion in such a way that she can't forget him once she's home again. She invites Winston to visit her, and he promptly wins over everyone in sight and persuades Stella to make some changes in her life.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2004-01-01 | | Edition Description: | Reissue |
| Size | | Length: | 448 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 13.1 oz |
Publisher's Note
In a best-selling novel by the author of Waiting to Exhale, Stella, a sexy, sassy, and successful African-American woman, describes how an affair with a younger man transforms her life. Reprint.
Industry Reviews
"Is a happy woman in charge of her own fate de facto an unsympathetic character--someone people don't want to read about and cannot empathize with? If so, the defenders of serious literature will no doubt join in unison to eject Terry McMillan's rip-roaring new book, 'How Stella Got her Groove Back', from the Eden of politically and academically correct approval. Because, in 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back', no women weep; and Stella, in fact, revels. She revels and even gloats at being a woman, revels in being in solitary possession of her mind, her body, her child, her house, her finances, her beauty, her creativity and finally, of her sexy, strapping young dream lover, whom she finds and triumphantly lashes to her side. If this is unserious literature, it is unserious literature of the most serious kind, perhaps even, in its own way, revolutionary."
Washington Post Book World - Liesl Schillinger (05/05/1996)
"...[I]t's heartening to see that McMillan, who has been famously outspoken and prickly about being left out of the pantheon of Black Literary Lionesses (which includes Alice, Toni, and Maya), has learned to relax and enjoy her status as a significant writer of popular fiction....You can just see McMillan grinning as she weaves all of her critics' barbs into one big, cheerful nose-thumb and sashays to the bank. Again."
Quarterly Black Review of Books - Karen Grigsby Bates
"...[A] guilty-pleasure sex-and-shopping fantasy of the first order, sprinkled with asides on rap music and feminine hygiene and featuring a message as uncomplicated as a glass of fresh-squeezed papaya juice: If aging men can rev their engines with pretty young trophy wives, why can't middle-aged women treat themselves to dreamy, dishy boy toys?"
New York Times Book Review - Sarah Ferguson (06/02/1996)
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