Looking for Mr. Goodbar the Under the Radar Festival. Looking for Mr. Goodbar Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a novel by American writer Judith Rossner. Published in 1975, the book—a "stunning psychological study of a woman's passive complicity in her own death" —won critical acclaim and was a #1 "New York Times" best seller. Theresa Dunn, a young woman living in New York City, leads something of a "double life": by day she is a devoted schoolteacher, but by night she cruises singles bars. Eventually, just as she's trying to make a new start, Terry is murdered by a young drifter she has just
Judith Rossner exploration of the intimate, complex connections between food and emotion..." Rossner published her last novel, "Perfidia" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), in 1997 to extraordinary reviews. "Pefidia" (which means "treachery" in Spanish) was, like "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", inspired by a real-life murder. A "chilling" story of an abusive mother and the daughter who kills her, the novel is "a scorching portrait of attachment and loss." Hailed as "[r]elentless, suspenseful, and absolutely captivating," "Perfidia" is a novel which "burns hypnotically." In 2002, Rossner married educational publisher Stanley Leff, with whom she had begun a relationship in 1985. Rossner died from complications of