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'The book was called Pleasuring: One Couple's Journey to Fulfillment. The title, when the children had first heard it and begun to understand it, was so incontestably mortifying that it threatened to stunt them forever, leaving them clocked in time and steadfast refusal to enter the adult world.' This is more or less what happens to Holly and Michael, Dashiell and Claudia, after they read the seminal book which their liberal parents Paul and Roz Mellow have written, a book that features tasteful pastel illustrations of their parents' lovemaking - and which has become a runaway bestseller. Thirty years later, when the children who have grown up in the shadow of these erotically charged parents are adults, and it looks as though the book may be reissued, we catch up individually with their conflicted, complicated 21st-century lives and those of the iconic couple whose marriage has not run as smoothly as it seemed set to do...The Jane Austen of sexual politics, with crackling intelligence, humour and a signature hint of suppressed rage, Meg Wolitzer takes us into the heart of a family that is dysfunctional in its very own way but heartbreakingly familiar.
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'A hilarious send-up of sexual politics' -- Mail on Sunday, You magazine
'her writing is sympathetic, measured, gently ironic' -- Victoria Lane, Daily Telegraph
'mischievously funny... The tone is one of nuanced insight and observation, both sympathetic and worldly' -- Anna Shapiro, Guardian
This is one of the best and most human books I’ve read all year... Everyone should read it this summer. -- The Times, Erica Wagner
‘Wolitzer successfully weaves together past and present, sensitively exploring issues of sex, relationships and forgiveness'. -- Matilda McLean in The Daily Telegraph
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'her writing is sympathetic, measured, gently ironic' -- Victoria Lane, Daily Telegraph
'mischievously funny... The tone is one of nuanced insight and observation, both sympathetic and worldly' -- Anna Shapiro, Guardian
This is one of the best and most human books I’ve read all year... Everyone should read it this summer. -- The Times, Erica Wagner
‘Wolitzer successfully weaves together past and present, sensitively exploring issues of sex, relationships and forgiveness'. -- Matilda McLean in The Daily Telegraph
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-
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0701178906
- ISBN 13 9780701178901
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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