Man and Wife: A Novel

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Summary: great insights for steppparents....
Review: the insights into second marriages & stepparenting were right on target. Also, the caring for the aging parent & loss of a parent - however, you need to overlook Harry's selfishness & immaturity - if you can do that, it's a great read.

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Summary: keepin' it real
Review: this book was better than the first! Man and Boy was a great book about relationships and happy endings...but Man and Wife keeps it real! My brother recommended this book to me and i couldn't put it down. I laughed, I cried, I got angry...but in the end Parsons tells it like it is.
I'm a 20-something woman who thoroughly enjoyed the insight into relationships without the idealistic slant. Make things what you want them to be and always be true to yourself!

Rating:
Summary: keepin' it real
Review: this book was better than the first! Man and Boy was a great book about relationships and happy endings...but Man and Wife keeps it real! My brother recommended this book to me and i couldn't put it down. I laughed, I cried, I got angry...but in the end Parsons tells it like it is.
I'm a 20-something woman who thoroughly enjoyed the insight into relationships without the idealistic slant. Make things what you want them to be and always be true to yourself!

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Summary: Good Read But...
Review: This was a very satisfying read. I felt myself rooting for Harry and hoping that he would not make yet another "wrong" decision. However, it could have been edited more tightly, and does bear too many plot parallels with Man and Boy, but perhaps that is the point. It's all deja vu and there is nothing new under the sun?

I bought Man and Boy and Man and Wife together as a travel read without reading the liner notes carefully and without knowing that they are sequel/prequel, and was happy to find out, after reading Man and Boy, that Man and Wife allowed me to read more about characters that I had invested a fair bit of time in, in reading Man and Boy. But having had a second go with them in Man and Wife, I'm rather willing to let them go. It's been fun, but its time to move on.