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Article: East Side Story; After 'The Nanny Diaries,' The View From the Penthouse Is Greener Than Ever
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- The Washington Post
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- July 1, 2002
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Let's say, just for a moment, that your bosses are heartless and
nasty, and they underpay you. So you sit down and write a book about
them, and it becomes a huge bestseller. Sweet, sweet revenge.
This is the enviable position of Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin,
the former nannies who authored this year's biggest literary
sensation, "The Nanny Diaries." The book is a fictionalized comic
account of a nanny (named Nanny) who is employed by an affluent,
dysfunctional Park Avenue family. The Xes, as they are called in the
book, may be fabulously wealthy, but they are truly awful: Mrs. X,
who keeps her lingerie in labeled Ziploc bags, devotes her
considerable free time to pampering herself and ...