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Product Identifiers

PublisherScribner

ISBN-10074326178X

ISBN-139780743261784

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038851774

Product Key Features

Book TitlePosition

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Sagas, General, Literary

Publication Year2005

GenreFiction

AuthorMeg Wolitzer

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight18.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-056577

Reviews"The Position will leave you curled on the floor, weeping with bitterness and envy that SHE wrote it and not YOU. Or maybe that's just me. In any case, it's painfully funny and brilliantly executed while also being utterly original. I won't be reading any more of Ms. Wolitzer's books."-- Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors, Elinor LipmanI've been marveling at [The Position] since page one, and now that I've finished, I'm stopping people on the street. I love the premise, the characters, the story, the writing, the eye, the ear, you name it. If this book doesn't win prizes, I'll eat my galley., Julia Glassauthor of the 2002 National Book Award winner, Three JunesEach book Meg Wolitzer writes is better than the last--wiser, funnier, deeper, more daring, even more rhapsodic -- but I can't imagine how she will ever top this one. The Position is the most moving, enthralling, shamelessly perceptive new novel I've read in years. It is the kind of book I'm always searching for but rarely find, one whose characters captivate me so completely that I am left, on the final page, wishing for a sequel while knowing that the story is complete. In her portrayal of the ordinary yet equally remarkable Mellows, Wolitzer illuminates so many truths about our families, our culture, and our era that I am sure I will continue to muse about them, with great pleasure, for some time to come., Stephen Amidonauthor of Human CapitalI especially admire the way Meg Wolitzer has taken what is potentially a funny, knowing satire of an unfortunate 70s moment and deepened it into a wise, engrossing book that takes in just about all of the past few decades. I love books that take the long view of my generation's families (Corrections, Ice Storm, Middlesex) and this stands right with them. I imagine it will do very well indeed.

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813.54

LC Classification NumberPS3573.O564P67 2005