Looking For Mr. Goodbar

Contents appear as new, unread & unblemished in fine light brown, cloth covered boards with DJ displaying no significant surface/edge wear, as shown with small stain on bottom in back.

Author's 4th book, a huge best seller and basis for the film starring Diane Keaton and Richard Gere. The dark side of attractive young school teacher Terry Dunn ultimately kills her.

Looking for Mr. Goodbar is the story of the life and death of Terry Dunn-an attractive young schoolteacher, educated in parochial school, from a respectable family-the kind of girl you don't notice very much, the kind of girl who seems to have everything under control ... until one New Year's Eve when she is murdered. In this spellbinding novel, Judith Rossner writes with haunting intensity of the temptations and problems of a young woman of today alone in a big city where there are opportunities for a different kind of life-a life that relieves the boredom of work or dispels the chill of solitude, a life where you can have sex with strangers, where "Mr. Goodbar," the right bar, is always the next one the final escape from another restless night at home. This is the other world of Terry Dunn. There are also the men: Eli/ Ali- Jewish, divorced father, living temporarily in a friend's loft on Greene Street, confused, lonely, wanting to start a new life, the first man Terry permits to pick her up in a bar James-Irish, smooth-faced, well-behaved, a lawyer, from similar background, who is attracted to Terry but afraid of being committed or being ...

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