The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist presents her third novel, which traces the devolution of a passionate marriage into a violent nightmare, forcing Fran Benedetto to start a new life, and a new identity. Simultaneous.

4 cassettes / 4 hours
Read by Lili Taylor


With this stunning novel about a marriage that begins in passion and becomes violent, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of One True Thing moves into a new dimension as a writer of superb fiction.

With this stunning novel about a woman and a marriage that begins in passion and becomes violent, the Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist and bestselling author of One True Thing and Object Lessons moves to a new dimension as a writer of superb fiction. "If literature were judged solely by its ability to elicit strong emotions," Kirkus Reviews said about One True Thing, "columnist-cum-novelist Quindlen would win another Pulitzer."  And the same will be said about Black and Blue, a brilliant novel of suspense, substance, and importance.

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 beautifully written, heart-stopping story in which Anna Quindlen writes with power, wisdom, and humor 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. It is a remarkable work of fiction by the writer whom Alice Hoffman has called "a national treasure."

Traces the devoluton of a passionate marriage into a violent nightmare, forcing Fran Benedetto to start a new life and take on a new identity.

General

ISBN		9780375401909
Fiction/Non-Fiction		Fiction
Publisher		Random House
List Price		$24.00
Author		Quindlen, Anna
Publication Date		02/01/1998
Release Status		Out of Stock Indefinitely
Format		Audio Cassette
Language		English
Measurements		Height: 7.25 Inches (US) Width: 4.5 Inches (US) Thickness: 1.25 Inches (US) Unit Weight: 0.35 Pounds (US)
Edition		Abridged
Narrator		Taylor, Lili