![]() And the answer that emerges-"Just unlucky, I guess"-speaks to a larger question: how much control do women have over their own lives?Ĭertainly, Theresa is unlucky. She meticulously explores and examines an adulthood ofĭisastrous love affairs. She follows Theresa through a miserable ugly-duckling-with-a-swan-for-a-sister childhood, a childhood also clouded with a crippling illness that leaves deep emotion and physical scars. ![]() ![]() The question the author asks, as she tours the life of Theresa Dunn, the Roseann Quinn-like character of the book is, "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?" Of them bashed in her skull on New Year's Day, 1973. 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 sureness of Judith Rossner's writing and her almost flawless sense of timing create a complex and chilling portrait of a woman's descent into hell that gives this book considerable literary merit. Is so good a read, so stunningly commercial as a novel, that it runs the risk of being consigned to artistic oblivion. ![]() Her first three novels were beautifully reviewed and didn't sell. Udith Rossner has impeccable literary credentials.
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