She has a scar running down her back from a surgery to repair damage done to her spine by the disease. A polio incident as a child left her with a slight sway which men will later think is sexy. She was just coming out of her ugly duckling stage and emerging from the shadows cast by the wings of her swan like sister. Like a lion circling a herd of gazelles probing for the weakest member he had decided she was the right one to sustain his ego. Professor Martin Engle broke off his four year affair with his student Theresa Dunn by quoting Ecclesiastes to her. ”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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