Looking For Mr Goodbar
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, no tears, jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure.
A young woman's double life spirals toward a shattering conclusion in Judith Rossner's landmark novel, Looking for Mr Goodbar. Theresa Dunn — a dedicated teacher of deaf children by day — pursues a reckless, compulsive existence after dark, haunting the singles bars of 1970s New York in search of dangerous intimacy. Rossner chronicles Theresa's psychological unravelling with unflinching precision, drawing on the real-life 1973 murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn to construct a narrative of devastating authenticity and moral complexity. Rossner's novel stands as one of the defining works of American fiction in the post-sexual-revolution era, interrogating the collision between feminine liberation and vulnerability in a city that promises everything and guarantees nothing. Her prose is cool, clinical, and deeply empathetic — never sensational, always searching — presenting Theresa not as a cautionary tale but as a fully realised human being undone by contradictions her world cannot reconcile. A New York Times bestseller upon its 1975 publication, Looking for Mr Goodbar remains a haunting meditation on loneliness, desire, and the terrifying anonymity of modern urban life — a novel whose final pages linger long after the book is closed.
Author: Judith Rossner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, no tears, jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure.
A young woman's double life spirals toward a shattering conclusion in Judith Rossner's landmark novel, Looking for Mr Goodbar. Theresa Dunn — a dedicated teacher of deaf children by day — pursues a reckless, compulsive existence after dark, haunting the singles bars of 1970s New York in search of dangerous intimacy. Rossner chronicles Theresa's psychological unravelling with unflinching precision, drawing on the real-life 1973 murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn to construct a narrative of devastating authenticity and moral complexity. Rossner's novel stands as one of the defining works of American fiction in the post-sexual-revolution era, interrogating the collision between feminine liberation and vulnerability in a city that promises everything and guarantees nothing. Her prose is cool, clinical, and deeply empathetic — never sensational, always searching — presenting Theresa not as a cautionary tale but as a fully realised human being undone by contradictions her world cannot reconcile. A New York Times bestseller upon its 1975 publication, Looking for Mr Goodbar remains a haunting meditation on loneliness, desire, and the terrifying anonymity of modern urban life — a novel whose final pages linger long after the book is closed.