”To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 With more than four million copies in print, this seminal novel-a lightning rod for controversy upon its publication-has become a cultural touchstone that has forever influenced our perception of social rebellion and sexual empowerment. Goodbar is “uncommonly well-written and well-constructed fiction, easily accessible, but full of insight and intelligence and illumination” ( The New York Times Book Review ). 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. Theresa Dunn spends her days as a schoolteacher whose rigid Catholic upbringing has taught her to find happiness by finding the right man. Goodbar, is a story of love, power, sex, and death during the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Based on a harrowing true story, the groundbreaking #1 New York Times bestseller, Looking for Mr.
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