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Post by dem bones on Mar 5, 2016 8:37:58 GMT
Judith Rossner - Looking For Mr. Goodbar (Coronet, 1978: originally Jonathan Cape, 1975) "So incredibly brilliant you have to gape in wonder" reckoned a New York Magazine critic. Blimey! Been loath to begin a new novel just yet as too many real life distractions, but ninety pages in and suitably gripped. Bearing in mind story is based on events surrounding the brutal murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn by John Wayne Wilson on New Years Day 1973, the confession of 'Gary Cooper White' at start of books makes for uneasy reading (and, of course, has we ghouls hooked from the outset; it qualifies for our necrophilia thread). So how did Theresa Dunn get herself into such a deadly fix? What culmination of traumatic events transformed a quiet, scholarly Catholic girl into the most jaded of barflies, hanging out in Mr. Goodbars, picking up a different man every night for crushingly joyless sex? No surprise that it all really kicks off when she enrols for the classes of a predatory college professor ....
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