Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner is a highly erotic novel about the dangers that lurk for young women in singles bars. The story begins with the confession of Theresa Dunn's killer. Theresa was a young schoolteacher who had a habit of picking up men in the bars near her home. Gary White is a small-time criminal on the run from a warrant in his home state of Florida. Gary comes to New York to hook up with an old Vietnam buddy; however, his buddy is no longer at the address he gave Gary. Gary ends up staying with a homosexual man he met in a gay bar.
Humiliated from his experiences with the gay gentleman Gary is ready to get out of his current situation. Gary meets Theresa in a bar called Mr. Goodbar. When.....
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