The Position Paperback - 2006
by Meg Wolitzer
The author of "The Wife" (named a notable book of the year by "The New York Times, Los Angeles Times" and "The Washington Post") takes another huge step forward with an ambitious and exhilarating new novel about sex, love, the 1970s, and one extraordinary family.
Summary
In 1975, Paul and Roz Mellow write a bestselling Joy of Sex-type book that mortifies their four school-aged children and ultimately changes the shape of the family forever. Thirty years later, as the now dispersed family members argue over whether to reissue the book, we follow the complicated lives of each of the grown children and their conflicts in love, work, marriage, parenting, and, of course, sex -- all shadowed by the indelible specter of their highly sexualized parents. Insightful, panoramic, and compulsively readable, The Position is an American original.
First line
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.
Details
- Title The Position
- Author Meg Wolitzer
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
- Date 2006-06-13
- ISBN 9780743261807 / 0743261801
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.38 x 0.7 in (20.27 x 13.67 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Demographic Orientation: Suburban
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 07/09/2006, Page 24
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