Black and blue : a novel
(2010, original release: 1998)
By:
Quindlen, Anna
Fiction
Book
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Call Numbers:
FICTION/QUINDLEN,A
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010
©1998
©1998
EDITION
Random House Trade paperback edition
DESCRIPTION
310 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780812980493, 0812980492 :, 0812980492, 9780812980493
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Contains author's "afterthoughts" and a reading group guide
A nurse escapes her abusive husband, a New York policeman, taking their son with her to Florida. She assumes a new identity and even finds romance, but there is a price, the 10-year-old boy misses his father and she lives in constant fear the father will find them, which he does. The novel analyzes why abused women wait so long to make their break
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