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Black and blue : a novel / Anna Quindlen.

Quindlen, Anna, (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0375500510
  • ISBN: 9780375500510
  • ISBN: 0679435395
  • Physical Description: 293 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, 1998.

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
1000L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 14 19893.
Subject:
Abused wives > Fiction.
Abused women > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Marriage > Fiction.
Mothers and sons > Fiction.
Wife abuse > Fiction.
Marriage.
Florida > Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Romance fiction.

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