Black and blue

Description

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. Black and Blue is a story in which Anna Quindlen writes 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.

First Sentence

The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Wheeler large print book series

Other Editions

• Black and blueWheeler Pub.1998-01-01
• Black and blueRandom House1998-01-01
• Black and blueRandom House1998-01-01
• Black and blueRandom House1998-01-01
• Black and blueArrow1999-01-01
• Black and BlueDell1999-02-02