LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR by Judith Rossner

Refinished Mo 3/8/21 (also the day I got the second (booster) shot for the COVID virus and the gunfight near Jamie's house at Glenwood and Ash).

I bought the book on Sa 12/4/93 and first finished it on Fr 12/10/93.

The novel was written after Rossner wrote an article about a real woman who was raped and murdered. Some of the actual details are continued in the novel; the real woman also had a curved spine (scoliosis)

 From NY Times:"Mr. Goodbar" is based loosely on the actual case of a Roseann Quinn, a quite, rigidly brought-up, Catholic schoolteacher, who was wholly unremarkable except that she sought out her sexual partners in New York singles bars. The last of them bashed in her skull on New Year's Day, 1973."

To me the book is too full of moral posturing. The moral seems to be that Terry Dunn chooses sex over abstinence and pays the ultimate price.

I really enjoyed the scene where one of Terry's pickups is 'shocked and appalled' that she is a teacher of young children. How could she even consider being sexually active in a bar and then go and teach 'the young and innocent'. Of course he hasn't a thought about how his behavior might affect his career choice. His attitude:  "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"

A link to the book's page at Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Mr._Goodbar_(novel)

Judith Rossner's page at Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Rossner

I would read more by Rossner if I came across one of her novels at a used book store.