Man at Work

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Summary: Very sensual AND very humorous....
Review: Elaine Fox combines a heartwarming romance with a delightful sense of humor in Man At Work. Not only does Ms. Fox give us a wonderful hero and heroine, but she also works in memorable minor characters. This is truly a fun read. I have been a fan of the writing of Ms. Fox and have enjoyed her time travel and historical romances. With her last book, Maybe Baby, and now Man At Work, she proves herself to be wonderfully skilled at contemporary novels also. I certainly look forward to the next effort by this very talented writer.

Rating:
Summary: Very sensual AND very humorous....
Review: In DC, personal injury lawyer Marcy Paglinowski has worked hard to achieve the professional success she has attained and has a goal to continue to climb the legal corporate ladder. While seeking evidence to support a negligence case, Marcy intercedes when a nasty construction foreman kicks a dog. However, worker Truman Fleming needs to rescue the Good Samaritan from his boss. For his efforts Truman is fired. Marcy offers to help him, but he rejects her attempt. Unbeknownst to the attorney is that Truman is extremely wealthy, but he is tired of the social whirl and thus seeking solace by using his hands.

Marcy tries to persuade Truman to assist her on her case against his former employer. He assumes that like him she was born with a silver spoon and rejects her materialism. However, love still surfaces though neither has enlightened the other about their true background.

Using miscommunication, misinterpretation, and misconceptions caused by omission, Elaine Fox provides an amusing romance with serious undertones involving work place safety and stereotyping. The story line engages the reader who wonders when the truth will surface. The lead couple is interesting to observe the way they stereotype and consequently put down the other, but on the other hand this leads to questioning how a relationship can form when the foundation's material is made of uncorrected falsifications. MAN AT WORK is fun and will leave readers pondering when Ms. Fox will release her next work.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: amusing romance with serious undertones
Review: In DC, personal injury lawyer Marcy Paglinowski has worked hard to achieve the professional success she has attained and has a goal to continue to climb the legal corporate ladder. While seeking evidence to support a negligence case, Marcy intercedes when a nasty construction foreman kicks a dog. However, worker Truman Fleming needs to rescue the Good Samaritan from his boss. For his efforts Truman is fired. Marcy offers to help him, but he rejects her attempt. Unbeknownst to the attorney is that Truman is extremely wealthy, but he is tired of the social whirl and thus seeking solace by using his hands.

Marcy tries to persuade Truman to assist her on her case against his former employer. He assumes that like him she was born with a silver spoon and rejects her materialism. However, love still surfaces though neither has enlightened the other about their true background.

Using miscommunication, misinterpretation, and misconceptions caused by omission, Elaine Fox provides an amusing romance with serious undertones involving work place safety and stereotyping. The story line engages the reader who wonders when the truth will surface. The lead couple is interesting to observe the way they stereotype and consequently put down the other, but on the other hand this leads to questioning how a relationship can form when the foundation's material is made of uncorrected falsifications. MAN AT WORK is fun and will leave readers pondering when Ms. Fox will release her next work.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Truman is a condescending arrogrant jerk.
Review: Truman Fleming, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, tires of
the shallow socialite realm. He decides he wants to find out how the other half (this being what he defines as 'poor') lives and snubs all those he has known, all that he has known and anyone interested in ensuring their future income. Meanwhile his mother buys him enough food to feed an army, hires him a personal chef, and the reader will know that his mother will bail him out if ever needed (A mummy's boy).

He meets Marcy at a construction site where he is a construction worker. He immediately assumes that she is a "rich girl", like him, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, despite abundant references elsewise (all through the book). He then decides to tell her the error of her ways (which he has determined through his assumptions). When she starts to tell him of her views, instead of actually listening, he gets angry and storms off. Marcy, for some unbeknownst reason, actually seems to like this guy, and decides to apologise for making him angry. Through Marcy's friend Calvin, he learns the error of his assumptions, and for some strange reason, seems to believe he can talk to her without some serious groveling. Which he does. Is Marcy so spineless? Once finding out who slashed her tyres, does she do anything about it (particularly since she paid US$600 for a new set!)? No. Maybe she is spineless.

Marcy has worked so hard to get where she is. She deserves someone better than Truman. If this is the kind of condescending arrogance displayed at this time, imagine what living with him for long periods of time would be like? By the end of this book, I was dreading the ending, knowing they would end up together, and hating it. I wanted the ending to be different, where Marcy shows him up for what he is (an arrogant condescending jerk), learns from it, and moves on (away from him). If we wanted to read about the conditions of poor people we would read Engels' Conditions of the Working Class Man and London's People of the Abyss. Lets see Truman in those conditions without his mummy!