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"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."
- Sir Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)
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ZIN Product Number: 10085533
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 293 pages
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0375500510
Release Date: Jan 3, 2001
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The courage that drove her groundbreaking New York Times op-ed page column surfaces in Anna Quindlen's third work of fiction, Black And Blue.
This is a stunning story about marriage, propelled by carefully crafted suspense and the believable and sympathetic character of Fran Benedetto. As Quindlen described to Matt Lauer on the set of NBC's "Today" program minutes before I sat down to talk with her, relationships are all about power. From the margin of domestic violence, Quindlen reveals the less poisonous power struggles inherent in all relationships.
Rarely the subject of fiction, domestic violence resonates under Quindlen's refined lens in the black and blues of Fran Benedetto. An instinctive caregiver, Fran enlists the services of an underground relocation service, not to save herself from her husband's brutality but to protect Robert, her son. The safety achieved in this harrowing escape is imperiled by Fran's sense of her abandoned husband's inflamed passion -- creaks in the night and unfamiliar figures manifest her greatest fear.
Despite constant misgivings and longings for the comfort of her old routine, Fran has clearly made the right decision. For the first time, readers may understand why a woman endures the bruises, broken bones, and rape inflicted by her husband, and so the difficulty in Fran's decision is illuminated. Hers is never the character of passive victim. However, as in Quindlen's journalism, and as in life, the ending provides no respite from reality -- it is bittersweet, terrifying, and transfixing.
| | | | From The Publisher
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. Then one night, when she saw the look on her ten-year-old son's face, Fran finally made a choice—and ran for both their lives.—
Now she is starting over in a city far from home, far from Bobby. And in this place she uses a name that isn't hers, and cradles her son in her arms, and tries to forget. For the woman who now calls herself Beth, every day is a chance to heal, to put together the pieces of her shattered self. And every day she waits for Bobby to catch up to her. Because Bobby always said he would never let her go. And despite the flawlessness of her escape, Fran Benedetto is certain of one thing: It is only a matter of time.—
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
Heart Touching Story
-- A reviewer, December 5, 2000
Great Book
-- Allyahh, a new reader catching up, May 28, 2002
Also Recommended: Janet Fitch....White Oleander Toni Morrison..The Bluest Eye & Sula
A Heartbreaking Novel
-- Amy, a 19-year-old college student, June 5, 2002
Also Recommended: Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts; I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb; Never Change, Elizabeth Berg; Jodi Picoult novels; Anita Shreve novels; The Nanny Diaries
Amazing
-- Christine, a book lover, March 25, 2002
REALISTIC FICTION
-- Gabriel, a lover of AUDIO books!, July 22, 2002
Also Recommended: The Red Tent
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