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A Day Late and a Dollar Short
by Terry McMillan
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Viking (2001-01-15)
ISBN: 0670896764
EAN: 9780670896769
Dewy Decimal #: 813.54
Hardcover: 432 pages
Release Date: 2001-01-15
SKU: 01169
Condition: Collectible: Very Go
Comments: good condition from non smoking home. First edition
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Much-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan's tour-de-force novel introduces the Price family-matriarch Viola, her sometimes-husband Cecil, and their four adult kids, each of whom sees life-and one another-through thick and thin, and entirely on their own terms. With her hallmark exuberance and cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, the author of the phenomenal best-sellers Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back has given us a novel that takes us ever-further into the hearts, minds, and souls of America-and gives us six more friends we never want to leave.
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Amazon.com Review
Terry McMillan's novels feature chatty, catty narrators who have a story they're just busting to tell you. The dominant voice in A Day Late and a Dollar Short is Viola Price, whose asthma just sent her to the ICU. And who came to visit? The Jheri Curl-wearing Cecil, "a bad habit I've had for thirty-eight years, which would make him my husband." Viola doesn't think Cecil's such a catch: "His midlife crisis done lasted about 20 years now," and "to set the record straight, Cecil look like he about four months pregnant." But somebody did catch Cecil--he recently left Viola for "some welfare huzzy" with three kids. And, as we soon find out in Cecil's first-person chapter, Viola has abundant flaws of her own. McMillan deftly sketches the exasperated intimacy of the long and unsuccessfully married. She also has great dish about family dynamics. Have Cecil and Viola's kids got problems! When lovable, luck-free Lewis turns up to visit his mom, he's drunk, broke, and still whining about his ex, Donnetta, who "didn't have as much sense as a Christmas turkey" (though she did have the sense to dump Lewis). Now Lewis consoles himself with his Bobbing Betty doll. "How could somebody with an IQ of 146 be so stupid?" marvels Viola. And that Charlotte! Viola's daughter is "a bossy wench from the word go." (Gee, where could she have gotten that trait?) Charlotte feels like she never got her fair share of attention, having been born 10 months after the eldest daughter, Paris (now the driven mom of a brilliant athlete whose white girlfriend claims she's pregnant). Charlotte took it out on younger Lewis and Janelle, who's been in college 15 years with no degree in sight. At first, you'll make ample use of the family charts in the endpapers to figure out who's who, but pretty soon you'll feel right at home with the squabbling, multiply dysfunctional, ultimately loving Price clan. You may agree with Viola: "Some folks got some stuff that can top ours. Hell, look at the Kennedys." --Tim Appelo
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Customer Reviews
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HER BEST WORK
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-06
THIS IS A BOOK FOR READERS, WHO ARE REAL ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH NOT ONLY FAMILY BUT THEMSELVES. WHAT I LIKE MOST ABOUT THIS BOOK IS THE MOTHER PULLS NO PUNCHS, WITH HER CHILDREN OR EX HUSBAND. SHE IS NOT A PERFECT MOTHER, AND SHE AND ALL OF US KNOW THIS. NEITHER IS HER CHILDREN. BLACK MOTHER ALWAYS KNOW THE REAL YOU EVEN WHEN YOU HIDE IT FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD. THIS STORY MADE YOU FEEL LIKE A FLY ON THE WALL JUST WAITING TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT. I LAUGHED AND CRIED, AND THEN CRIED AND LAUGHED AGAIN. THIS IS REALLY A GREAT BOOK I JUST WISH IT HAD BEEN MADE A MOVIE.
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Absolutely Engrossing
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-04-23
This book was enthralling. I found that I could relate to it. Personally, felt that I knew everyone in the book as they seemed like members of my own family.
The language and dialogue in the book were also realistic, making it even easier to understand and love.
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Great Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-02-17
One of my favorite Terry McMillan books. You'll fall in love with the Price family and in A Day Late A Dollar Short, you'll go on their not so smooth journey. It's about life & family and it's very well written. You'll love it.
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One of my Favs
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-02-07
Terry is my favorite author of fiction like this. She is an inspiration. This book is one of my favorites, funny, compelling and worth paying full price.
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Best book ever
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-08-02
This book is great. I must say it's the best one i have read thus far. I laughed, cried, and surprised when other things happened. This book was very good and it is a must read book.
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