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A Day Late and a Dollar Short
by McMillan, Terry
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670896764
- ISBN 13
- 9780670896769
- Seller
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press / Penguin Putnam / Viking Penguin, 2001 First printing of the first edition, review copy with publisher's material laid-in, including Stephanie Rausser's black-and-white photograph of the author that was used as the prototype for the author's bio on the back flap, additionally laid-in is the publisher's press release and two promotional postcards with the author's signing dates. Signed 3 times by the Terry McMillan: on the title page, the second blank page, and directly on the black-0and white photo (scarce thus). Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition. A stunning first edition without flaws.
Synopsis
Las Vegas, 1994. The Prices are introduced by Viola, the family's outspoken matriarch: Her husband, Cecil, has shut the door behind him for the last time; and their four adult kids, scattered across the country, seem determined to send her to her grave, or at least to the hospital with worrying. Paris is divorced, mother to a nearly seventeen-year-old son and the one who always comes to everybody's rescue—although she doesn't have a clue as to how to save herself. Lewis is the scapegoat, and his troubles keep landing him in jail, which only seems to confirm what his family thinks he is. Out in Chicago, Charlotte knows she's gotten the short end of the stick for years, has "nothing in common except blood" with her parents and siblings and would just as soon divorce them all. Janelle, the baby of the family, is not only on the defensive about the course of her own life but she's facing a new crisis, a fast-brewing storm with her teenage daughter that threatens more than she's willing to admit. And don't even ask Viola about Cecil: "He's a bad habit I've had for thirty-eight years which would make him my husband." But Cecil has some ideas for taking his hardworking life into his own hands, regardless of what his wife and kids think about it. With her hallmark exuberance and a cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, Terry McMillan has given us a tour-de-force novel of family, healing and redemption. A Day Late and a Dollar Short takes us deep into the hearts, minds, and souls of America—and gives us six more friends we never want to leave.
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- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022708
- Title
- A Day Late and a Dollar Short
- Author
- McMillan, Terry
- Illustrator
- Stephanie Rausser (Author's Photo); Brad Wilson (Cover Photo); Mark Stein (Endpaper Maps); Paul Buckley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670896764
- ISBN 13
- 9780670896769
- Publisher
- Viking Press / Penguin Putnam / Viking Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Fiction, African American, Afro-American, Black Literature, Review Copy, Women Writers, Essence Lifetime Achievement Award.
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