Compromising Positions

by Susan Isaacs

Book Overview

The brilliant debut that's sold over a million copies-now in trade paperback for the first time Rediscover the "wonderfully funny, deliciously mean" (New York Times) novel that launched Susan Isaacs'... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515093025
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.7" x 0.9" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

The Original Desperate Housewife

This is still one of my all time favorite books. If you like Desperate Housewives, you'll love Compromising Positions. The desperate housewife of this book is a great character who regains her self-esteem, solves a murder and still has time for a little romance. The secondary characters are a hoot.

A Great Read!

I always love finding a new author, and am SO glad I've found Susan Isaacs!!! Compromising Positions is a witty, intelligent, fast paced read that had me laughing out loud and biting my finger nails! What more can you ask for from a book? I've since read Long Time No See, the follow up (albeit 20 years later) to Compromising Positions and loved it as well!!! Good work Ms. Isaacs - I'm looking forward to reading all your other works.

Great tale of Suburbia

OK, let's face it up front: This is a story about adultry, murder and intrigue in middle-American suburbia. It's not the type of lifestyle that most of us aspire to but in Susan Isaac's hands it is absolutely hilarious. This is one of the few books that made me laugh out loud - the word pictures created are too good for words.IN fact, the whole tale - from plot to Jewish Angst to the heroine's thoughts - are the stuff of best sellers. I have a real attraction to those stories where the innocent bystander innocently becomes involves (and solves) a crime. This is all done between soccer rides for kids and fixing dinner for her hubby. (The movie was not nearly as good as the book but was still a hoot.) Definite read.

20 years later, still is a very good read

This is, I think, Susan Isaacs' first book, written in the 70s. At least it's the very first book by her that I read, years ago. A couple of days ago I decided to re-read it, after finishing ( & liking) "Long time no see". Well, "Compromising positions" is as good, as easy-to-read as I recalled...but then again, I've got a soft spot for all Susan Isaacs books!In "Compromising positions" we meet Judith Singer for the first time. An intelligent, attractive (although not exceedingly so), funny & energetic lady. A historian turned housewife & mother, & bored stiff by life in the suburbs. Judith is going from day to day, living with Bob, in a kind of boring but pretty stable marriage, looking after her young kids, & taking pleasure in long, witty conversations with her intelligent & sassy friend, Nancy. At some point, she hears about the murder of the local periodontist & as it turns out, womanizer. The case interests her, & suddenly she finds herself deeply involved in the investigation. And also deeply involved with a certain person who has something to do with the investigation, but that I'll leave you to find out for yourself."Compromising positions" is a wonderful, easy read about life in the suburbs, life in the 70s, & life for a bored housewife who yearns for intellectual stimulation. I think this is the first book where Isaacs shows her talent & her ability to draw believable & enjoyable characters. And as a footnote, I'd have to say that in Isaacs work I've read some of the best, funniest & most sexy love affairs that I've found in the book world!! Sit back & enjoy...

what fun

A histerical story about a housewife who takes it upon herself to find the killer of a sleazy dentist who was murdered in her small Long Island community. A must for anyone who loves mysteries and satire.