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The Manny
The Manny
Author: Holly Peterson
What's a Park Avenue working mom to do when her troubled son desperately needs a male role model? If she's like the gutsy heroine of Holly Peterson's astute new comedy of manners, she does what every other woman on the block does. She hires a manny. — A middle-class girl from Middle America, Jamie Whitfield isn't "one of them...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780385340403
ISBN-10: 0385340400
Publication Date: 6/19/2007
Pages: 368
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 39 ratings
Publisher: The Dial Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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reviewed The Manny on + 234 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
A great book about the obscenely rich, and the priorities one wife/mother must make to keep her children and herself intact. Quick read and well written.
candieb avatar reviewed The Manny on + 239 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Okay, this book was crap... I won't lie. But it's also fluffy easy-reading crap. Nothing really made me mad or anything, it was just easy reading "can see the ending a mile away" type of thing. Save it for the beach this Summer, but it's worth a read. Kind of sad the woman had to hire someone to play with her kid though. It's fiction, but you know that some poor kids have these guys that are paid to play with them because their dad is too busy. *laugh*

Okay... like I said, it's total junk, but it's a beach read for sure. Pick it up and read it in June on vacation :)
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reviewed The Manny on + 29 more book reviews
This is a funny, sweet, laugh out loud and also tug at your heart kind of book - don't pass it up because there is no cover picture on PBS. Great story with interesting "behind-the scenes" of both the world of "the Grid"; the exclusive blocks of the Upper East side of NY, and the world of network television as well. Wonderful working mother story line. I did not want this book to end!
lindy3b avatar reviewed The Manny on + 16 more book reviews
This was really a fun book to read. It tells how the 'other' side lives. I would be just like Jamie. Not falling for the manny part, but trying to fit in with the upper class and not pulling it off. :)


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