Black and blue
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anna Quindlen
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780440226109
Subjects: Abused wives; Mothers and sons; Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Description: 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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