Black and Blue (35 page)

A
NNA
Q
UINDLEN
is the author of five bestselling novels:
Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Blessings
, and
Rise and Shine
. Her
New York Times
column “Public & Private” won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of those 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;
a book for the Library of Contemporary Thought,
How Reading Changed My Life;
and the bestselling
A Short Guide to a Happy Life
and
Being Perfect
. From 2000 to 2009, she wrote “The Last Word” column for
Newsweek
.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

2010 Random House Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 1998 by Anna Quindlen
Reading group guide copyright © 2010 by Random House, Inc.

Excerpt from
Every Last One
copyright © 2010 by Anna Quindlen

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., in 1998.

This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming
hardcover edition of
Every Last One
by Anna Quindlen.
This excerpt has been set for this edition only and
may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Quindlen, Anna.
Black and blue / Anna Quindlen.
p.   cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-76785-1
I. Title.
PS3567.U336B58 1998
813′ .54—dc21          97-25208

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