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.
My friend selected this for me at a used book shop. I was skeptical at first but thoroughly enjoyed this quick read! Who doesn't dream of taking off for a bit of adventure without any real plan? Maybe not on a motorcycle trip while nine months pregnant with twins and going into labor as soon as you arrive at a commune full of strangers but this story and book, now 50 years old, seemed quite plausible for the 70's.