- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Press; Lrg edition (Oct 1 1989)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385297459
- ISBN-13: 978-0385297455
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.7 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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Bestselling author Danielle Steel paints a poignant portrait of Oliver Watson, a man who thinks his life is perfect--he has a great job, a beautiful home, a good relationship with his parents, three healthy children, and a loving wife. Things change the day Oliver Watson comes home from work to learn that his wife is going away to graduate school, leaving him to play full-time daddy, super-employee, and son-on-call; Oliver soon discovers that it is impossible to "have it all," all by himself. Through trial and error, and by watching the courageous examples set by his teenage son coping with his girlfriend's unplanned pregnancy and his father learning to love again after the death of his Alzheimer's stricken wife, Oliver discovers for himself that love can occur more than once and dreams can change for the better. One of Steel's best! --Alison Trinkle
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Steel's captivating 25th novel will send her rocketing past the 125-million mark for books in print and satisfy avid fans with its splashy sentiment, loudly plucked heartstrings and boldly drawn, if superficially developed, cast. Oliver Watson is a successful, rather stolid, advertising executive with a beautiful wife, Sarah, three children, Ben, Melissa and Sam, and a house in suburban New York. But his paradise is teetering over an abyss: Sarah, who never wanted a conventional life, coldly abandons husband and kids to "find herself" by pursuing a master's degree at Harvard. Then Oliver's mother dies of Alzheimer's disease, leaving his 72-year-old father bereft, and 17-year-old Ben fathers a child and drops out of school. Oliver blames the unremittingly icy Sarah for every sorrow, yet initially refuses to get on with his life, even when his father points the way by finding a new love. Steel ( Star ; Zola ) is at the top of her bestselling form as she steers Oliver through a fearsome new world of single parenthood, modern women and radically changed sexual mores before winding up with a paean to family life and romance. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selection.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The snowflakes fell in big white clusters, clinging together like a drawing in a fairy tale, just like in the books Sarah used to read to the children. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not just a tawdry romance,
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This review is from: Daddy (Paperback)
"Daddy" is about Oliver Watson who thinks he has everything. He has a great life with the quentissential American Dream: wife, kids, house, dog. That is, until his wife Sarah decides that she wants to go back to school...away from him and the kids.Everything in Oliver's world starts to fall apart: his oldest son gets a girl pregnant and his mother with Alzheimer's is in an accident and dies. Through watching his family cope with the obstacles in their lives and watching his father fall in love again, Oliver realizes that he too must move on with his life. This was the first Danielle Steel novel that I read and I was impresses. It wasn't just a tawdry romance novel. There was also a made-for-TV movie based on this book. It starred Patrick Duffy (Oliver), Linda Carter (Charlotte) and Kate Mulgrew (Sarah). Ben Affleck played the oldest son.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not A Page Turner!,
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This review is from: Daddy (Hardcover)
After reading Silent Honor, A Pefect Stranger and many before, I thought I really loved Danielle Steel's books. But then...I read Fine Things and then Daddy, I didn't like all two of them. I noticed that in these three books, that someone leaves and then their spouse quickly remarries. Kind of the same plot over and over!I feel that her best book was The Promise, the characters ended up together at the end (GREAT BOOK!) Happy Readings!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A different look of how men deal,
By Ronica Rainge "Pinkie2326" (Upstate, New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Daddy (Paperback)
This book was the perfect example of what a man would have deal with when his wife leaves him with the kids instead of him leaving her. I was happy with the fact that DS made him work at it instead of having him say some meaningful things about the mother Sarah leaving and the kids accepting it and everything going smoothly we all know there are bound to be some troubles the perfect example is Ben the oldest son getting his girlfriend pregnant. I was REALLLY happy when the father Oliver got his second chance just like Sarah took hers I found myslef hating the mother for putting her children in that situation what kind of mother does that but on the other hand being a woman I understand her actions she wanted to know when was it going to be her turn? To live life without having to worry about kids and a husband or what to make to for dinner? I loved this book and I think everyone should read it.
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