The Position, Meg Wolitzer
The Position, Meg Wolitzer
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The Position
A Novel

Author: Meg Wolitzer

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 10 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/30/2015

Synopsis

Crackling with intelligence and humor, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution—and through the thirty-year hangover that followed.In 1975 Paul and Roz Mellow wrote a bestselling Joy of Sex–type book that mortified their four school-aged children and ultimately changed 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.

About Meg Wolitzer

American author, Meg Worlitzer, has been the first author to participate in a coast to coast book club discussion via Skype. That would seem to be a great way to promote her work most advantageously. The work discussed was The Uncoupling. Meg was born in 1959 in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother was also a novelist and her dad, a psychologist. She graduated from Smith College and Brown University in creative writing. Her first writing was accomplished during undergrad, entitled, Sleepwalking, a tale of three college girls who were obsessed with poetry and death, and was published in 1982.

Her novels include: The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Year Nap, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking. These were all on the New York Times-bestselling list. She also co-authored a cryptic crossword book, and has taught creative writing in several important venues. Three films have evolved from her writings, including This Is Your Life, scripted and directed by Nora Ephron.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew

I woke up in the middle of the night and all I could think about was being only 25% away from finishing this book, so I got up and did. That's the strength of Meg Wolitzer's characters. They read in a way that feels so real that when the book is put down, the reader keeps on thinking about them and......more

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“Painfully funny and brilliantly executed…Utterly original.” Augusten Burroughs, New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors

“Hilariously moving, sharply written…The Position will resonate with anyone who has ever walked in on their parents doing the deed—and for all of us who have had to accept that our mothers and fathers are normal people with healthy sex drives.” USA Today

“Wolitzer’s comic timing never wavers, and she has an astute grasp of the way one generation’s liberation inspires the next generation’s pity.” New Yorker

“Funny, wise, and full of the richness and sadness of family life…hilarious and humane.” Times (London)

“Sly and delicious…Her richest and most substantial [novel yet]." Washington Post

“You know families are this funny, you know they are this weird. But never has this realization been such a welcome and entertaining relief.” Philadelphia Inquirer

“Sub-mysteries drive us onward…but 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, what kind of intimacy is desirable, and how adult offspring cope with histories of unmet needs…It is clear that forgiveness, for this or possibly any family, is the novel’s real subject.” Guardian (London)

“Wolitzer nevertheless bestows her trademark warmth and light touch on this tale of social and domestic change.” Publishers Weekly

“Wolitzer keeps this study of one family’s three-decade journey along the sexual continuum churning along with her droll, often poignant tale.” Library Journal

“Wolitzer…is a smart, funny, and entertaining novelist in the Anne Tyler school who spikes her kinetic sagas with shrewd observations about the peculiarities of human nature and society…Wolitzer is a witty, bold, and upbeat satirist, and this is one scintillating, wily, and wise novel.” Booklist

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