Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan's ground-breaking bestseller, is a raw, powerful and triumphantly frank portrait of four black women who share the concerns, small as well as large, of women everywhere- money, kids, ageing parents, clothes, hair, work, weight, men and sex. Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria and Robin are four friends who lean on each other, holding their breath, waiting for love... 'BRIGHT, AGGRESSIVE, RESILIENT AND SASSY...THESE ARE WOMEN JUST BURSTING WITH LIFE...THE MEN COME AND GO. BUT THROUGH IT ALL THESE FOUR VIBRANT AND DURABLE WOMEN ARE THERE FOR ONE ANOTHER...IT IS A VISION TO CHEER' ashington Post 'EVERY BIT AS SERIOUS AS MARY MCCARTHY WAS WHEN SHE WROTE THE GROUP...TRIUMPHANT' unday Telegraph 'ONE OF THE MOST LIVELY AND SHARPLY FUNNY NOVELS I'VE READ THIS YEAR...THE HUMOUR IS PAINFULLY TRUE' unday Express
- ISBN10 0613014332
- ISBN13 9780613014335
- Publish Date 1 December 1995 (first published 1 June 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Turtleback Books
- Edition Turtleback School & Library ed.
- Format Hardcover (Library Binding)
- Language English