Climax- The climax of this novel is when Bobby finds Fran, an event that she's been fearing since her initial escape. They talk (Fran talks, Bobby yells) and get into a physical altercation. Fran fights back, unlike she has before, but Bobby still leaves her unconscious. When she awakes, Bobby is gone, and he has taken Robert with him. Anna Quindlen’s realistic thriller Black and Blue follows main character Frannie Benedetto, who, having suffered severe domestic abuse, chooses to run away with her son to escape the escalating violence of her police officer husband. The book was chosen for Oprah's Book Club in · Black and Blue is the story of a woman who flees an abusive relationship, taking her son and attempting to disappear into residential Florida, all the while waiting for her husband, a New York cop, to find and hurt her. The book is not Quindlen's best and while it is readable, and at less than pages a manageable length, it feels like little more than a Lifetime "woman's" movie in novel form/5.
― Anna Quindlen, quote from Black and Blue "He had not colored the leaves in yet, and the trunk and its branches looked for the moment less like a tree and more like a great brown river, the Nile, the Amazon, the Benedetto and Flynn river of blood, and there at its isthmus was this one child, so that it seemed that all of these people, from. Black and Blue: A Novel. Black and Blue.: Anna Quindlen. Random House Publishing Group, - Fiction - pages. 29 Reviews. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Intimate and illuminating and, as is true of most anything Quindlen writes, well worth the read."—People. For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. Black and Blue is a American made-for-TV movie. Based on the novel by Anna Quindlen directed by Paul Shapiro. After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly. Enough is a American drama - thriller film directed by Michael Apted.
Climax- The climax of this novel is when Bobby finds Fran, an event that she's been fearing since her initial escape. They talk (Fran talks, Bobby yells) and get into a physical altercation. Fran fights back, unlike she has before, but Bobby still leaves her unconscious. When she awakes, Bobby is gone, and he has taken Robert with him. Anna Quindlen’s realistic thriller Black and Blue follows main character Frannie Benedetto, who, having suffered severe domestic abuse, chooses to run away with her son to escape the escalating violence of her police officer husband. The book was chosen for Oprah's Book Club in Black and Blue is a novel by Anna Quindlen, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in April Plot. 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.
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