Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner

With more than four million copies in print, this seminal novel-a lightning rod for controversy upon its publication-has become a cultural touchstone that has forever influenced our perception of social rebellion and sexual empowerment. Single women, Man-woman relationships, Murder victims, Psychological fiction. A lifelong New Yorker, her books centered around. The last of them bashed in her skull on New Year's Day, 1973. Goodbar is 'uncommonly well-written and well-constructed fiction, easily accessible, but full of insight and intelligence and illumination' ( The New York Times Book Review). About the author (1997) Judith Rossner 19352005 was an American novelist, most famous for the bestseller, Looking for Mr. Goodbar' is based loosely on the actual case of a Roseann Quinn, a quite, rigidly brought-up, Catholic schoolteacher, who was wholly unremarkable except that she sought out her sexual partners in New York singles bars.

But at night, her resentment of those social mores and fear of attachment lead her into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles' bars, where she engages in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity that threatens her safety and, ultimately, her life. Theresa Dunn spends her days as a schoolteacher whose rigid Catholic upbringing has taught her to find happiness by finding the right man. Goodbar, is a story of love, power, sex, and death during the sexual revolution of the 1970s.

Based on a harrowing true story, the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller, Looking for Mr. Goodbar' was published in 1975 and became a sensation due to its stark portrayal of a young woman's.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner