Black and Blue is a beautifully written, heart-stopping story in which Anna Quindlen writes with power, wisdom, and humor about the real lives of men and women, the varieties of people and love, the bonds between mother and child, the solace of family and friendship, the inexplicable feelings between people who are passionately connected in ways they don't understand. It is a remarkable work of fiction by . Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen A novel about an abused woman's path to freedom, BLACK AND BLUE introduces us to the world of Fran Benedetto, a woman who is beaten and emotionally abused every day by the only man she's ever loved, her husband Bobby. Fran lives day by day in a type of fear that can't even be described/5(). · Black and Blue is a beautifully written, heart-stopping story in which Anna Quindlen writes with power, wisdom, and humor about the real lives of men and women, the varieties of people and love, the bonds between mother and child, the solace of family and friendship, the inexplicable feelings between people who are passionately connected in ways they don't understand.
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue "He had not colored the leaves in yet, and the trunk and its branches looked for the moment less like a tree and more like a great brown river, the Nile, the Amazon, the Benedetto and Flynn river of blood, and there at its isthmus was this one child, so that it seemed that all of these people, from. Black and Blue Anna Quindlen, Author Random House Inc $23 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Still Life with Bread Crumbs; Every Last One. Fran fights back, unlike usual, but she is still left unconscious. When she wakes up, Bobby is gone- and so is Robert. The book's conclusion is set in the future; a future where Fran and Mike are married and have a daughter together in Florida. Fran is never able to locate Bobby or Robert. However, one day she receives a call from year-old.
ANNA QUINDLEN is the author of two other bestselling novels, Object Lessons and One True Thing. Her New York Times column, "Public Private," won a Pulitzer Prize in , and a selection of these columns was published as Thinking Out Loud. Black and Blue is a novel by Anna Quindlen, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in April Plot. For eighteen years, Fran Benedetto kept her secret. And hid her bruises. And stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father. And because, in spite of everything, she loved him. Black and Blue is the story of a woman who flees an abusive relationship, taking her son and attempting to disappear into residential Florida, all the while waiting for her husband, a New York cop, to find and hurt her. The book is not Quindlen's best and while it is readable, and at less than pages a manageable length, it feels like little more than a Lifetime "woman's" movie in novel form.
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