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. 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). 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. Goodbar by Judith Rossner Book Club Edition (BCE) 1975 Very Good/Very Good Firm binding, slight lean to spine, minor wear at top/bottom. Goodbar Nine Months in the Life ofan Old Maid To the Precipice. Judith Perelman Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975).A lifelong New Yorker, her books centered around the themes of urban alienation and gender relations. I was and remain a big fan of Judith Rossners 1975 bestseller (the 1977 movie version starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere, not so much). Theresa Dunn spends her days as a schoolteacher whose rigid Catholic upbringing has taught her to find happiness by finding the right man. BOOKS BY JUDITH ROSSNER Any Minute I Can Split Attachments August Emmeline Lookingfor Mr. Judith Rossner 19352005 was an American novelist, most famous for the bestseller, Looking for Mr.

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.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner