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| The Position: A Novel | 
| Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 136036
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0743261801
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780743261807
ASIN: 0743261801
Publication Date: June 6, 2006
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 Good book! September 21, 2008
I haven't read this delightful a novel in quite some time. Paul adores Roz and makes a popular book about making love with her (Joy of Sex era). Paul and Roz make four children who discover the book. Each child goes on to have complex and interesting lives that the narrator discloses. Michael is smart, wealthy, and can't ejaculate. Claudia is not so spicy and finds love in an unusual way. Holly, the oldest, has gone her own way, ditched the family a long time ago, can't seem to reconnect. Dash is gay and ends up ill with Hodgkin's Disease. Looks like an AIDS patient, acts like an AIDS patient, but isn't. Dash is also the child who seems to have the most stable significant other relationship. And as for Paul and Roz? He adores her right into the arms of the artist who rendered the drawings for their book. Family drama at its best.
 The Kind of Book I Love, but Rarely Find September 6, 2008
I love women's fiction, but find so much of it to be either too light--and therefore, not interesting enough to keep reading--or too heavy, dark and angsty. A lot of women's fiction is also too "lyrical" and "poetic" (when a book is described thusly, I steer clear! I know it means the book contains lots of blah-blah descriptive passages that add nothing important to the story.) Meg Wolitzer, on the other hand, gets it just right. She is a wonderful writer who keeps it SO interesting, even funny at times, but always so real. In "The Position," which is really about love and family relationships, not just about sex, the Mellow family contains characters who endure situations we readers recognize and identify with, sometimes with a smile, sometimes with a thud in our chest and a tear in our eye.
She "gets" big families August 28, 2008
I really enjoyed this book- diving into the feelings and adolescence of each family member. It really captured the life in a big family. Definitely a good read. The sensationalism of it being Joy of Sex isn't really as much as all that, so it may be less interesting to those that want scandalous sex passages.
Life... December 5, 2007
While this book initially appeared to be about SEX, it isn't about that at all. The author saturates the tales with so much sex that the reader is urged to look deeper and find out the true nature of the story. Wonderfully honest portrayals of family...real family......
Just like a new position, this one had some awkward moments September 10, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The premise of this sometimes delightful book is certainly unique. I'll spare you the details, partly because I'm feeling lazy tonight, but also because other reviewers have done an admirable job of covering the basics. While reading this, I felt a wave of nostalgia (much better than waves of nausea I must say) for the innocence of the 70's - a time when kids had NO clue what went on behind the doors of their parents' bedrooms (thank God). The Mellow children could have been among the clueless, except they accidentally discovered a best-selling book their parents had created and published......and even posed for (imagine the shock here folks; remember, this was the 70's). The story then skips ahead so we get the privilege of seeing just how these kids turned out. You guessed it, they're all slightly dysfunctional (although so am I.......and my parents certainly didn't write a how-to book about sex). This was an interesting read and Wolitzer's writing boasts a quirky sense of humor. The adult children (is that an oxymoron?) were a bit one-dimensional and, at times, painfully odd. But all in all, I would recommend this book, just not to my mother.
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