The Position
  • Published: 2 October 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099485056
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99

The Position

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'Funny, wise and full of the richness and sadness of family life' - The Times

By the acclaimed author of The Wife - as hilarious and uncomfortable as the eponymous position, a sharp, funny, unexpected and compellingly readable novel about the effects of the sexual revolution (and a Joy of Sex type book) on one family.

Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf.

It is written by their liberal parents, features tasteful pastel illustrations of their lovemaking, and has become a runaway bestseller. Thirty years later the book is set to be reissued but the lives of the Mellow family are no longer the same: their children grapple with complicated 21st century problems and the iconic couple's perfect marriage has not run as smoothly as everyone has assumed...
  • Published: 2 October 2006
  • ISBN: 9780099485056
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Uncoupling (‘tingles with playfulness and wicked observation’ Independent), The Wife (‘has you howling with recognition’ Allison Pearson), The Position (‘one of the best and most human books I’ve read all year’ Erica Wagner) and The Ten-Year Nap (‘as incisive and pitiless and clear-eyed a chronicler of female-male tandems as Philip Roth or John Updike' Chicago Tribune). Most recently, The Interestings was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in New York City.

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Also by Meg Wolitzer

The Interestings
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The Female Persuasion
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Praise for The Position

Hilarious

Mail on Sunday

Intelligent and witty

Herald

The best novel I have read in years... a cast-iron masterpiece

David Baddiel, The Times

What sets and keeps you reading is not the high concept about the sex book but the beautifully developed deeper story of what parents owe children...The tone is one of nuanced insight and observation, both sympathetic and worldly

Guardian

Funny, moving and wise, The Position is a joy to read

Daily Mail

Her writing is sympathetic, measured, gently ironic...an entertaining and persuasive novel about a family and its inevitable diffusion

Daily Telegraph

Meg Wolitzer is a fine, funny and wise writer

Independent on Sunday