MARC Record from Western Washington University

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001 ocm48688833
003 OCoLC
005 20060504124731.0
008 020103s2001 nyu 000 1 eng d
020 $a0451204948 (pbk.) :
040 $aMDK$cMDK$dLEO$dXFF
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090 $aPS3563.C3868$bD3 2002
100 1 $aMcMillan, Terry.
245 12 $aA day late and a dollar short /$cTerry McMillan.
250 $a1st Signet ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSignet Book,$c2001.
300 $a464 p. ;$c17 cm.
520 1 $a"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 hard-working life into his own hands, regardless of what his wife and kids think about it."--BOOK JACKET
590 $aAvailable at the Center for Educational Pluralism, located in Miller Hall 250.
740 0 $aCenter for Educational Pluralism Collection.
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902 $a080208
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902 $awa