Black and Blue - Brossura

"A sad and important story, convincingly told--.--.--. Black and Blue is enormously readable--.--.--.--Like her columns, Quindlen's novels are written with intelligence, clarity and heart-rending directness." --Newsday

"Heartbreaking."--Time

"Engrossing--.--.--.--compassionate and tense."--The New York Times

"Absolutely believable--.--.--.--Quindlen writes with power and grace." --The Boston Globe

ANNA QUINDLEN is the author of two other bestselling novels, Object Lessons and One True Thing. Her New York Times column, "Public & Private," won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of these columns was published as Thinking Out Loud. She is also the author of a collection of her "Life in the 30's" columns, Living Out Loud, and two children's books, The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After. She lives in New York City.