Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Judith Rossner
Simon & Schuster
<p>Based on a harrowing true story, ...&nbsp;<i>Looking for Mr. Goodbar</i>&nbsp;is a story of love, power, sex, and death during the sexual revolution of the 1970s.</p><p>Theresa Dunn spends her days as a schoolteacher whose rigid Catholic upbringing has taught her to find happiness by finding the right man. 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.</p>