The Washington Post, August 11th, 2005
Judith Rossner, 70, a novelist who had her greatest popular success with a terrifying account of the singles bar scene, "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," died Aug. 9 at New York University Medical Center. She had diabetes and leukemia. Mrs. Rossner's nine other books, beginning with "To the Precipice" (1966) and ending with "Perfidia" (1997), similarly were concerned with women's perspectives on ambition, loneliness and love. "My abiding theme is separations," she once said, and that played out in plots involving divorces, runaway pregnant wives, adolescent anger and unusual love affairs. That last ...
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