About this title: Based on an actual murder, here is the story of Theresa Dunn, a convent-educated schoolteacher with a respectable family and a decent fiance, who haunts the singles bars of New York. Theresa arrives alone, but she picks up a take-home man. The author also wrote "His Little Women".
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780671220259ISBN:067122025X
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Nice hard cover, lightly read, light shelf wear to dust jacket, light marks on top edge, light aging, stk #2272x5. 284 p. read more
"Beginning section describing the murder from the cowboy's POV is totally unnecessary and seems like a cinematic embellishment. I almost stopped reading. But as the story progresses, I realize it is part of this 70s/80s genre of attempting-to-be-liberated women that in the end gets punished for this new found sexual freedom (the worst in this case = death.) Think Erica Jong, Judy Bloom's Women, etc."
"A good solid book about the potential consequences of promiscuity before the age of AIDS.
People who live in this generation might not understand or appreciate this book. After all, we are living in a world without boundaries where sexting happens with people you've never met as easily as it does with someone you know, married people are fair game in the dating arena, and senior citizens are the fastest growing population to contract HIV.
Does anyone know of a book that speaks to this generation about the relational consequences between men and women?"
"Theresa Dunn leads two lives: During the day she is a school teacher and at night she picks up men at bars. As certain episodes in Theresa's life get revealed, you try to make sense of how the negative impact caused by these episodes leads her to behave in such a self-destructive way. Although I didn't really enjoy reading this book that much, I wouldn't mind seeing the movie and giving that a chance."
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