Quindlen, Anna
Black and Blue a Novel Anna Quindlen. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c1998. - 293 p. ; 25 cm.
In Black and Blue, Fran Benedetto tells a spellbinding story: how at nineteen she fell in love with Bobby Benedetto, how their passionate marriage became a nightmare, why she stayed, and what happened on the night she finally decided to run away with her ten-year-old son and start a new life under a new name. Living in fear in Florida--yet with increasing confidence, freedom, and hope--Fran unravels the complex threads of family, identity, and desire that shape a woman's life, even as she begins to create a new one. As Fran starts to heal from the pain of the past, she almost believes she has escaped it--that Bobby Benedetto will not find her and again provoke the complex combustion between them of attraction and destruction, lust and love.
0375500510 (acid-free) 0375500510
97025208
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Abused wives--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.--Florida
Oprah's Book Club
Florida--Fiction.
PS3567.U336 / B58 1998
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Black and Blue a Novel Anna Quindlen. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c1998. - 293 p. ; 25 cm.
In Black and Blue, Fran Benedetto tells a spellbinding story: how at nineteen she fell in love with Bobby Benedetto, how their passionate marriage became a nightmare, why she stayed, and what happened on the night she finally decided to run away with her ten-year-old son and start a new life under a new name. Living in fear in Florida--yet with increasing confidence, freedom, and hope--Fran unravels the complex threads of family, identity, and desire that shape a woman's life, even as she begins to create a new one. As Fran starts to heal from the pain of the past, she almost believes she has escaped it--that Bobby Benedetto will not find her and again provoke the complex combustion between them of attraction and destruction, lust and love.
0375500510 (acid-free) 0375500510
97025208
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Abused wives--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.--Florida
Oprah's Book Club
Florida--Fiction.
PS3567.U336 / B58 1998
Qui 2