{"product_id":"2026100007663-secondhand-looking-for-mr-goodbar","title":"Looking For Mr Goodbar","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, no tears, jacket protected by mylar sleeve. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\n\nRossner'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130585358555,"sku":"2026100007663-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/315532b5-950a-4451-8b68-dec4029b358e.png?v=1786586822","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007663-secondhand-looking-for-mr-goodbar","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}