European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes tuesday october 11, 1977 Christopher Littlefield camera 5it s such a joke to look behind the meaning of fiction author Judith Rossner. By Pat Lewis Washington Star to is the woman who in looking for or. Goodbar found in herself the necessity and the ability to explicitly de scribe the sexual fantasies of women and who dares now in attachments to reveal in bizarre and frightening fashion the Bitch in each of us she s a Bronx born woman of 42 whose father was a textiles converter and whose Mother was an elementary school teacher and a frustrated writer determined that her daughter should succeed where she had t. When her Mother died Judith Rossner could t writ for a year. When the new York times gave her latest Book a perfect review she was elated a week later remembering the crap she had put her Mother through she spent three hours crying because her dead Mother will never feel the Pride of her Success. As a teenager Judith Rossner went through analysis later As a College student she was a non student who remembered stories about people More easily than her studies. She did Well in English but flunked philosophy at City College of new York and dropped out when working marriage and writing took priority Over being a non Stu Dent. And five novels ago this woman who lived with a husband 17 years discovered of my god that she was writing about herself and about her Hus band and she found that the realization of their problems via her writing did nothing to help that relationship. The movie version of or. Goodbar which will Star Diane Keaton is coming out this fall. Rossner has detached herself from it knowing that it will be and has to be totally different from her Book. But with the proceeds from the movie rights she has already bought a House and built a swimming Pool for he daughter now 17, and son now 12. On tour to promote attachments Judith Rossner awakens at 6 30 . In a strange hotel washes her hair writes a bit on novel no. 6, and flies to Washington in a peasant dress velvet jacket and boots to be chauffeured in a limousine to and from interviews and airports. And ironically right there in a Fine Washington restaurant she is offered the sexiest Cannelloni you Ever blink. Is this or. Goodbar will this frizzy haired woman respond with Theresa Dunn s seductive flippancy blink. No. This is Washington. A Fine restaurant. Judith Rossner raises her eyebrows smiles and could it be maturely giggles. Rossner never talks about her private but if you want to know about her read her books. They Are about her she says. Attachments the Story of two women friends who marry siamese twins is he autobiography. You won t recognize me by my actions she says. It s an autobiography slightly fleshed out of my fanta sies and mind. And it took something very freakish tomake me feel Safe doing it s also another dramatization and the Salvo of her theme of themes How much people need love and companionship and How much they sacrifice to get either or both. She admits that the deeper Tieme the on going at tempt to separate ourselves from our mothers will bewitch her for awhile. Most of the experiences i write about i have not had says Rossner. But i be always been interested in the Way people act and Why they act the Way they prior to attachments she read about real siamese twins who married Sisters and had 21 children. But then the couples separated because the women did t get along. The twins spent three Days in one House and three Days in Rossner protests that attachments is not about freaks. It is about love and Friendship and beyond the initial Story of any of her books there is Rossner insists no attempt to simulate the truth. The Book i m working on now began with a Story i heard. When i researched it to Check it out i was relieved to find out it was t True. Now i can do with it what i want. I take the Story and i let it develop my Way. It s evil for me to decide what the truth is. I Don t want to Harangue the readers or Force it Down their throats. If there s a truth twill Tell itself. I value fiction More than factual advice books. Those Are easily forgotten. Facts Are less illuminating than what you make up. What can you Tell about the facts of David Berkowitz that there Are psychopaths in the world. But the similar experience shared by someone else out there told in fiction is More during a difficult period in the five year writing of attachments Rossner received a letter from a woman in Glen Mont. It now hangs Over her desk. This woman had read or. Goodbar and then gone Back and read my other novels says Rossner. She wrote to me to say that she had been living with feelings she was ashamed of and that she did t know anyone else Felt the Way she did. After Reading my books she Felt less alone. It s such a joke to look behind the meaning of fiction everyone wants to write and writing is always an impulse to overcome the space Between people the lonely feeling you Don t get that Relief from fact. You get i from b
