An edition of de Como Stella Recobro La Marcha (1996)

How Stella got her groove back

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An edition of de Como Stella Recobro La Marcha (1996)

How Stella got her groove back

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Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy - and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world?

Stella doesn't mind too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love - and all of love's nasty fallout - anyway.

But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core not just by the relaxing effects of sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's tall, lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean - and is half her age.

The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.

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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
368

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Cover of: How Stella got her groove back
How Stella got her groove back
1998, Signet
in English
Cover of: How Stella got her groove back
How Stella got her groove back
1997, Penguin
in English
Cover of: How Stella got her groove back
How Stella got her groove back
1997, Signet
in English
Cover of: How Stella got her groove back
How Stella got her groove back
1996, Viking
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.C3868 H68 1996, PS3563.C3868H68 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
368 p. ;
Number of pages
368

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL978154M
Internet Archive
howstellagotherg00mcmi
ISBN 10
0670869902
LCCN
96015374
OCLC/WorldCat
34417970
Library Thing
45365
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
958257

Work Description

Stella tiene cuarenta y dos años, un divorcio a sus espaldas, un hijo de once años que vive con ella, y un bien pagado trabajo como asesora de inversiones. Entre sus haberes figuran una casa espléndida que ella misma ha diseñado, una cuenta de ahorros que no está nada mal, y un excelente estado físico que cuida con la ayuda de su entrenadora personal. Pero a Stella le falta algo. No es exactamente sexo, pues aunque vive sola, de tanto en tanto lo practica saludablemente con algún amigo. Es, más bien, una vaga, difusa sensación de disconformidad general, como si en algún momento hubiera caído en la trampa de una vida demasiado ordenada, demasiado previsible; como si hubiera vendido sus sueños de juventud por un puñado de lentejas. Abundantes y muy bien sazonadas y acompañadas de vinos excelentes, pero lentejas al fin. A los cuarenta y dos años, Stella ha perdido la marcha. Y un buen día, cuando su hijo se va a pasar quince días con su padre, Stella decide de repente ir de vacaciones a Jamaica. Irá sola y muy bien dispuesta, y no olvidará los consejos de su hermana Vanessa, que le ha recomendado calurosamente probar la buena afama de los jamaicanos... Claro que Vanessa jamás osó imaginar que uno de esos jamaicanos seria el encantador Winston, alto, átlético, guapo, culto... y de sólo veintiún resplandecientes añitos de edad...

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I HADN'T PLANNED ON GOING ANYWHERE.
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