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.īlack 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. 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.

In Black and Blue, Fran 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. '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. Shown at the 1998 Montreal Film Festival.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. Locations in New Jersey were used to create the film's Eastern coastal college town. But tensions erupt as long-buried family secrets emerge. Ellen's attitude changes when it becomes apparent this probably will be the final Thanksgiving and Christmas with all family members present. Once Ellen arrives back home, she's dismayed to find herself caught in the web of her mother's Middle America activities. In truth, Ellen is uncomfortable with her mother's various ladies club lunches, and holiday preparations, and she finds communication with her mother awkward. Ellen needs to get away from the problems of her relationship with her boyfriend Jordan (Nicky Katt), but she plans to continue work on the magazine article from home.

He tells Ellen she's needed at home to care for her mother, Kate (Meryl Streep), who's due for surgery. In 1987-88, independent Ellen Gulden (Renee Zellweger), a Harvard grad, is working on a New York Magazine investigative article when she hears from her father, George (William Hurt), a literary critic and university professor. Carl Franklin directed this family drama adapted from the 1995 novel by former New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen about a young woman who goes back home to take care of her dying mother.

One true thing by anna quindlen