Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099485056 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099485052 |
| Author: | Meg Wolitzer |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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The best novel I have read in years… a cast-iron masterpiece – David Baddiel * The Times *Funny, moving and wise, The Position is a joy to read * Daily Mail *Meg Wolitzer is a fine, funny and wise writer * Independent on Sunday *Hilarious * Mail on Sunday *Her writing is sympathetic, measured, gently ironic…an entertaining and persuasive novel about a family and its inevitable diffusion * Daily Telegraph *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 *Intelligent and witty * Herald *
About The Author
Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, most recently The Uncoupling (tingles with playfulness and wicked observation - Independent) and 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). She is married with two sons and lives in New York City.
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