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How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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In style, structure, and content, How Stella Got Her Groove Back is very different from any of Terry McMillan's other novels. This work is purely and simply a love story, and, as such, it is limited in scope. In fact, its primary focus is not on both lovers but on just one of them, the title character. Stella Payne is the first-person narrator, telling her story in a breathless, stream-of-consciousness narrative that does not have either the complex structure or the more calculated style of McMillan's other books.

Stella is a forty-two-year-old woman who divorced her...

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