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Compromising positions

Compromising positions

by Susan Isaacs

1978DentistsFictionFiction in EnglishHousewivesMurder
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First lines

As they would murmur at his funeral, Dr. M. Bruce Fleckstein was one of the finest periodontists on Long Island.

Themes & subjects

DentistsFictionFiction in EnglishHousewivesMurderLarge type books
First published 1978

Setting

New York (State)

About the author

Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacs

7 December 1943

Susan Isaacs is an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. After college, she worked as a senior editor at Seventeen magazine and also as a freelance political speechwriter. Her first novel (and first attempt at fiction), Compromising Positions, was published in 1978. It was chosen as a main selection of the Book of the Month Club and, like all of her subsequent novels, was a New York Times bestseller. Her fiction has been translated into thirty different languages all over the world. She has also written screenplays, book reviews, and magazine articles. Source: Wikipedia

Author

Susan Isaacs

First published

1978

Pages

347

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

8

Language

English

Publisher

Book Club Associates

ISBN

9780515093025

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