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Black and Blue
(Paperback, 1999)
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Author: Anna Quindlen
An abused wife named Frannie leaves home with her young son, and lives under a new identity in Flori...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0440226104
ISBN-13: 9780440226109
Mar 1999
Publisher: Dell Pub Co
384 pages
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Oprah's Book Club
Language: English |
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Synopsis
An abused wife named Frannie leaves home with her young son, and lives under a new identity in Florida, where she tries to make a comfortable life for the two of them. She is always in fear that her husband will find her, however, and ultimately he does, but Frannie is resilient, and survives to go on to a new life.
| Details | | Series: | Oprah's Book Club |
| Size | | Length: | 384 pages | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Sensitive, suspenseful and haunting....[An] astute, thought-provoking portrayal of one woman's battle to avoid becoming a statistic--or being viewed as one. Whether that battle is heroic or hugely misguided is a question that will linger with the reader long after the final chapter's close."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Autumn Stephens (01/25/1998)
"Battered wives, unfortunately, are a staple of daytime talk shows and made-for-television movies. To make Fran's mundane misery matter to us, Ms. Quindlen, paradoxically, must pull all the rabbits out of her writer's magic hat. As our narrator, Fran recounts her days in such richly textured language that we taste the peanut butter (no jelly) sandwiches she prepares for Robert; we smell, with despair, the moldy carpeting in her Florida apartment....Fran's precise, mesmerizing narrative makes readers understand her deep connection with [her abusive husband]. Her descriptions of Bobby's rages are truly scary...and yet her yearning to stay with him also makes frightening sense."
New York Times - Maureen Corrigan (02/06/1998)
"I read 'Black and Blue' from beginning to end in one insomniac sitting."
Salon - Laura Green (02/10/1998)
"[U]nfortunately the novel is nowhere near as convincing as the news reports all of us have seen on television. But it does keep the reader anxiously turning pages."
New York Times Book Review - Maggie Paley (02/08/1998)
"...Quindlen now takes a talk-show staple--spousal abuse--and gives it a compelling immediacy in a refreshingly wise and truth-telling novel about life and marriage....A book to read and savor."
Kirkus Reviews (01/01/1998)
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