Description
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...
'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.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099485056
Author Meg Wolitzer
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 223g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 19mm