Waiting to Exhale (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Terry McMillan
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Blacks, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Friendship, West, U.S., Women’s issues, Single parents or single-parent families, Women, Single people, Arizona, Colorado, Southwest, 1990’s, AIDS
- Locales: Phoenix, AZ, Denver, CO
In several ways, Waiting to Exhale is quite different from McMillan's two earlier novels. Instead of two protagonists, there are four. Moreover, each of the twenty-eight chapters in Waiting to Exhale has its own provocative title, for example, “Venus in Virgo” and “Interstate Lust.” Each also has the kind of beginning, middle, and end that one ordinarily finds in a short story. The novel proceeds from episode to episode, unified by the interaction among McMillan's four heroines, all of whom are successful women in their thirties living in Phoenix, Arizona, who are...
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