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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 for Dylan sounds too crazy to be true. But one look at Peter Bailey is enough to convince Jamie that the idea may not be quite so insane after all. Peter is calm, cool, competent, and so charmingly down-to-earth, he's irresistible. And with the political sex scandal of the decade propelling her career as a news producer into overdrive, and her increasingly erratic husband locked in his study with suspicious files, Jamie is in serious need of some grounding. Peter reminds her of everything she once was, still misses, and underneath all the high-society glitz, still is. But will the new manny in her life put the ground back beneath her feet, or sweep her off them? "From the Hardcover edition."
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这本书的名字叫《The Manny》，我是在朋友的推荐下才开始读的。老实说，一开始我并没有抱太大的期待，毕竟“The Manny”这个名字听起来有点……嗯，比较直白，让我联想到一些老套的故事。但是，当我翻开第一页，就被那种独特的叙事方式深深吸引了。作者的文字非常有画面感，仿佛我置身于故事发生的那个世界，能感受到空气中的细微变化，听到远处传来的声音。情节的推进不像我之前读过的大部分作品那样线性，而是有些跳跃，但这种跳跃却恰到好处地营造了一种悬念，让我迫不及待地想知道接下来会发生什么。
评分《The Manny》带给我的阅读体验是独一无二的。它不像那些情节跌宕起伏、高潮迭起的商业小说，也不是那种晦涩难懂的哲学著作。它介于两者之间，既有引人入胜的故事性，又不乏深度和思考。我最欣赏的是作者的叙事技巧，他能够巧妙地运用各种文学手法，让故事在平淡中透着不凡，在寻常中显出新意。读完之后，我久久不能平静，那种感觉就像是经历了一场心灵的洗礼。
评分我必须承认，《The Manny》是一本让我思考良多的书。它不仅仅是一个故事，更像是一种对生活、对人性、对情感的深刻探讨。作者并没有直接给出答案，而是通过故事中的人物和情节，引导读者自己去思考，去感受。在读这本书的过程中，我常常会停下来，默默地回味某个片段，或者思考某个角色的选择。这种“被动”的思考方式，反而比那些直白的说教更能深入人心。
评分说实话，一开始我对《The Manny》这个名字有点儿犯嘀咕，总觉得会是那种平平无奇的书。但事实证明，我错了。这本书的内容，远比它的名字来得更丰富、更深刻。作者的文字功底非常扎实，他能够用最简单的语言，勾勒出最复杂的场景和人物。我尤其喜欢他对于细节的捕捉，那些微不足道的小事，在他的笔下却能焕发出耀眼的光彩，成为推动情节发展的重要线索。这本书就像是一坛陈年的老酒，越品越有味道。
评分读《The Manny》的过程，简直就像是在探索一个未知的迷宫，每一个转角都可能带来惊喜，也可能隐藏着挑战。我特别喜欢作者对人物心理的刻画，那些细微的情绪波动，内心的挣扎和矛盾，都被描绘得淋漓尽致。有时候，我会觉得这些人物就像我身边的朋友一样真实，他们的喜怒哀乐都能引起我的共鸣。而且，这本书的语言风格也非常别致，有一些词汇和表达方式我之前从未见过，但它们却非常精准地传达了作者想要表达的意思，甚至比我熟悉的词汇更能触动人心。
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