The manny: (man-ee) n: 1. a nanny of the male persuasion
โ Scribed by Holly Peterson
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Dial Press
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1299070698
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โฆ Synopsis
What's a Park Avenue working mom to do when her troubled son desperately needs a male role model and her husband is a power workaholic? If she's like the gutsy heroine of Holly Peterson's astute new comedy of manners among the ill-mannered elite, she does what every other woman on the block does. She hires herself a "manny."
A solid middle-class girl from Middle America, Jamie Whitfield isn't "one of them" but she lives in "the Grid," the wealthiest acre of real estate in Manhattan, where big money and big media collide. And she has most everything they have--a big new apartment, full-time help with her three children, as well as her very own detached Master of the Universe attorney husband. What she doesn't have, however, is a full-time father figure for their struggling nine-year-old son, Dylan. But the rich haven't yet encountered a problem they can't hire someone else to solve.
Enter the manny.
At first the idea of paying a man to provide a role model...
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