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Book Review of Name Dropping

Name Dropping
Name Dropping
Author: Jane Heller
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Pre-school teacher Nancy Stern is in a rut, spending her days with four-year-olds and her Saturday nights with a good book. Then another woman with the same name moves into her Manhattan apartment building...a Nancy Stern who lives in the penthouse...a Nancy Stern who's blond and leggy and has a stable of boyfriends...a Nancy Stern who interviews celebrities for glossy magazines. Now Nursery School Nancy is deluged with mail and phone calls and deliveries of flowers-all meant for the Glamorous Nancy. It's all too much to bear-until a man calls one night, intending to ask the other Nancy on a blind date. What follows is a raucous and romantic tale involving mixups, mistaken identity, and murder...