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The Position Hardback - 2005

by Meg Wolitzer

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Sex, love, the 1970s,

and one extraordinary family

that lived to tell the tale

Crackling with intelligence and original humor, "The Position" is a masterful take on sex and the suburban American family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution and throughout the thirty-year hangover that followed. Meg Wolitzer, the author of the much-acclaimed novel "The Wife" (named a notable book of the year by "The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post," and "Newsday)," takes another huge step forward with this new book and showcases her distinctive voice, pitch-perfect observations, electric wit, and depth of emotion.

In 1975, suburban parents Paul and Roz Mellow write a "Joy of Sex"-type book called "Pleasuring: One Couple's Journey to Fulfillment," which becomes a surprise runaway bestseller. "The Position" opens with the four Mellow children, aged six to fifteen, at the moment when they see the mortifying book (and the graphic, pastel illustrations of their parents' creative, vigorous lovemaking) for the very first time -- an experience that will forever complicate their ideas about sex, parents, families, and themselves. The book brings a strange celebrity and small fortune ("sex money" the children call it) to the Mellows and ultimately changes the shape of the family forever.

Thirty years later, as the now-dispersed family members argue about whether to reissue the book, we follow the complicated lives of each of the grown children as they confront their own struggles with love, work, sex, death, and the indelible early specter of their erotically charged parents.

Some novels are about family, and others are about sex. "The Position" is aboutsex within the context of a family. Insightful, witty, panoramic, and heartbreaking, it is a compulsively readable novel about an eternally mystifying subject: how a group of people growing up in one house can become so very different from one another.

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THE BOOK was placed on a high shelf in the den, as though it were the only copy in the world and if the children didn't find it they would be forever unaware of the sexual lives of their parents, forever ignorant of the press of hot skin, the overlapping voices, the stir and scrape of the brass headboard as it lightly battered the plaster, creating twin finial-shaped depressions over the years in the wall of the bedroom in which the parents slept, or didn't sleep, depending on the night.

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  • Title The Position
  • Author Meg Wolitzer
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 307
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
  • Publication date March 1, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780743261784 / 074326178X
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.6 x 1.08 in (23.57 x 16.76 x 2.74 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Sex customs
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004056577
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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