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Judith Rossner


Born
in New York City, The United States
March 31, 1935

Died
August 09, 2005

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Judith Perelman Rossner was an American novelist, best known for her 1975 novel Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which was inspired by the murder of Roseann Quinn and examined the underside of the seventies sexual liberation movement. Though Looking for Mr. Goodbar remained Rossner's best known and best selling work, she continued to write. Her most successful post-Goodbar novel was 1983's August, about the relationship between a troubled young woman and her psychoanalyst who has emotional troubles of her own. ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 8,571 ratings · 642 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
3.67 avg rating — 6,749 ratings — published 1975 — 68 editions
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August
3.62 avg rating — 727 ratings — published 1983 — 25 editions
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Emmeline
3.80 avg rating — 551 ratings — published 1980 — 21 editions
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Perfidia
3.51 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1997 — 14 editions
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Attachments
3.37 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1977 — 15 editions
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Olivia
3.37 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1994 — 15 editions
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His Little Women
2.68 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1990 — 23 editions
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Nine Months in the Life of ...
3.51 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1969 — 10 editions
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To the Precipice
3.89 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1966 — 12 editions
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Any Minute I Can Split
3.27 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1972 — 12 editions
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“I'd rather be seduced than comforted.”
― Judith Rossner
tags: looking-for-mr-goodbar
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“The truth was that the new woman's movement made her uncomfortable. ... she was upset by the stridency of much of it. The demands. It seemed that men must surely dislike women who were so demanding.”
― Judith Rossner, Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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“When she was naked she generally found her body rather beautiful, although she could never in a million years have admitted this to anyone. In clothes, in front of other people, she felt ashamed of her weight, her sloppiness, always something, but it was more because of what she felt they saw when they looked at her. Now”
― Judith Rossner, Looking for Mr. Goodbar
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