Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Rossner, Judith - 1975

New York: Simon & Schuster. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0224011790 . This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some beginning toning to the edges and one semi-closed tear to the top rear panel. "Looking for Mr. Goodbar is the story of the life and death of Terry Dunn - ann attractive young schoolteacher, educated in parochial school, from a respectable family - the kind of girl you don't notice very much, the kind of girl who seems to have everything under control - until one New Year's Eve when she is murdered." This book was the basis for a film of the same name starring Diane Keaton, Richard Gere and Tuesday Weld. The book was based on the true life murder of schoolteacher Rosanne Quinn of New York. "On June 2, 1975, Simon & Schuster published Looking for Mr. Goodbar, the graphic story of Theresa Dunn, a damaged young woman who teaches deaf children by day and cruises singles bars by night. After picking up a man at Mr. Goodbar, she is brutally murdered in her own bed. A rare example of the literary pageturner, the book was an enormous critical and commercial success, selling some four million copies. It spent 36 weeks on the New York Times best seller list (3 of which were at #1) , becoming the fourth-highest selling novel of the year. Even Time magazine—rarely a champion of popular fiction—admitted, the book "richly deserves its success." .