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  <title><![CDATA[Man and Wife: A Novel]]></title>
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  <default_description>Harry Silver is ready to try again at living &quot;happily ever after.&quot; It won't be easy: not when he has to juggle his wife, his ex-wife, his son, his stepdaughter, his work, and his new wife's fast-growing career. Did Harry commit to marriage to Cyd too soon after his split with Gina? Can you love -- really love -- a child who is not your own? Can you be a good father to a child you only see on the weekends? When Harry meets a woman who makes him question all these things and more, his tangled web becomes even more knotty.&lt;P&gt;A brilliant sequel to the international bestseller &lt;I&gt;Man and Boy,&lt;/I&gt; Tony Parsons' &lt;I&gt;Man and Wife&lt;/I&gt; is a story about families -- and love -- in the new century, written with his trademark humor, passion, and superb storytelling that have made millions across the globe laugh and cry.&lt;P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2002</original_publication_year>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 17 01:51:25 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 29 21:29:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[buku ini sequel dari <em>man and boy</em>. di buku pertama, dikisahkan bahwa perkawinan tokoh utama, harry silver, hancur karena affair yang hanya terjadi satu kali. perjuangan menjadi orangtua tunggal, kemudian menata hidup kembali dengan 'cinta' yang lain. dan buku sequel ini mengisahkan kelanjutannya. men...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40285424">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 11 04:14:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 11 04:14:15 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Man nad Wife is the wonderful, or unforgetable, sequel to Man and Boy, like it reads on the cover. I just love them Harry and Pat Silver. The man and the boy. Harry and his boy. That's just so cute, so beautiful. <br/><br/>This time it however isn't so much about the realtionship between the fathe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42657861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40127762">
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 14 23:17:53 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 15 22:03:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apa sesungguhnya arti pernikahan bagi masyarakat modern abad ini? Apakah nilai-nilai yang dianut sekarang tentang pernikahan masih sama dengan dua puluh atau tiga puluh tahun lalu tatkala lembaga agung ini benar-benar dihormati dan dipelihara keutuhannya hingga maut memisahkan? Benarkah pola hidup m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40127762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74968281">
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    <name><![CDATA[Weni]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 18 18:13:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 02 18:03:16 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Buku ini merupakan sekuel dari buku 'Man and Boy'. Tokoh utamanya adalah Harry. Seorang suami dari wanita bernama Gina dan seorang ayah dari anak laki2 bernama Pat. Harry berselingkuh dengan rekan kerjanya, rumah tangganya pun berantakan. Gina pergi ke Jepang, meninggalkan Harry dan Pat. Di akhir ce...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74968281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53455303">
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    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 21 07:42:41 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 21 07:43:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed Man and Boy because, despite his shortcomings, it wasn't hard to have some sympathy with Harry and the situation he was in. It was a great piece of writing on love and divorce in the late 20th century. The sequel, however, was disappointing. Harry seemed intent on messing everything...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53455303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41779672">
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    <location><![CDATA[Wellington, New Zealand]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 03 18:36:20 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 12 20:27:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Harry Silver returns to face life in the &quot;blended family.&quot; A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and Boy, or completely on its own. Man and Wife is a novel about love and marriage -- about why we fall in love and why we mar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41779672">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33164452">
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    <location><![CDATA[Waukegan, IL]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who wouldn't mind High Fidelity without the music]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 18 07:44:13 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 24 15:15:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though he is supposedly an &quot;internationally best-selling author,&quot; I had never heard of Tony Parsons until Kelly loaned me this book.  He is compared to both Nick Hornby and Helen Fielding on the inside cover, but I'd say there's a bit more of the Hornby &quot;peek into the male psyche&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33164452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48843389">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 10 15:09:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 22 02:37:53 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[buku nyang satu eni lanjutan dari buku Tony Parsons sebelumnya, Man and Boy..masih menceritakan tentang kehidupan Harry Silver, sang tokoh utama..dimulai dengan kehidupan barunya bersama Cyd..hubungan pernikahan ini tidak semulus yang Harry bayangkan..bayangan tentang pernikahan &quot;selamanya&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48843389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38489534">
    <user id="1328950">
    <name><![CDATA[Judy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 23 17:56:20 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 00:04:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a continuation of the story of Harry and his relationships.  As in &quot;Man and Boy&quot;, he is both lovable and distressingly dim-witted all at once.  I like Parson's style, dislike his retarded male characters.  That said, I think these two stories about Harry Silver are excellent and ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38489534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74307011">
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    <location><![CDATA[Everett, WA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 12 14:10:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 12 14:11:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this one was also well written, heartwarming, and engaging, I think I liked it just a little less than it's predecessor, Man &amp; Boy.  It is worth reading and an interesting read for both men and women.]]></body>
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    <review id="69169816">
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    <name><![CDATA[Roxanne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Beaverton, OR]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Aug 27 20:16:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting look into the man's perspective of marriage, divorce, blended families and the eternal search of how love can hold a marriage together.]]></body>
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    <review id="57248092">
    <user id="1349886">
    <name><![CDATA[Marilyn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[SASKATOON , SK, Canada]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The main character really irked me; he seemed to be very confused and needy. It was an OK read but I felt somewhat frustrated by it all!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a few years back and it was interesting to read from a male perspective the demise of a relationship....]]></body>
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    <review id="7471658">
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    <name><![CDATA[Meanniek]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Khon Kaen, Thailand]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ภาคต่อของ Man &amp; Boy กับการแต่งงานใหม่ของแฮร์รี่ พ่อเลี้ยง แม่เลี้ยง ลูกเลี้ยง และการพยายามรักษาไว้ซึ่งสถาบันคร...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7471658">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50252277">
    <user id="1594681">
    <name><![CDATA[Andri]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Jakarta, Indonesia]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Mar 27 02:01:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[lanjut!<br/><br/>pergulatan emosinya tidak sedahsyat buku pertama.. jadi 3 bintang cukup lah..<br/><br/>-andri-<br/>&quot;begitu salah begitu benar&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="49749417">
    <user id="1155867">
    <name><![CDATA[Ariyani]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></location>        
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 19 03:10:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[hate how man treat his wife...<br/>the ending is cliche...]]></body>
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    <review id="4000045">
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Parsons does a nice job of describing the struggle to manage a blended family with stepchildren and ex spouses also playing a role in the family dynamic.  The fact that nobody in this book is perfect and all the adults make mistakes along the way only serves to make it feel more realistic.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4000045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, Parsons does takes &quot;as his specialist subject contemporary emotional issues which almost every other male writer has ignored&quot; but does he have to be so fucking sentimental about it? Thank goodness for the character of Eamon Fish, comedian and philosopher to slice apart main man Harry ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20364206">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the sequel of &quot;man and boy&quot;.  read it in the daewoo bus while going back to islamabad. still the same funny one, though could get tiring reading about his divorce issues especially. but much better than watching the &quot;da vinci code&quot; in the bus once again.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not nearly as good as Man and Boy!  It's hard to find the main character sympathetic because he's constantly looking for love and attention outside of his own marriage.  It made sense in the first book, but it gets frustrating in this one.]]></body>
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