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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Subjects
Kidnapping victims -- Fiction.
Brainwashing -- Fiction.
Child sexual abuse -- Fiction.
Child molesters -- Fiction.
Psychopaths -- Fiction.
Mothers of kidnapped children -- Fiction.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Kidnapping victims -- Fiction.
Brainwashing -- Fiction.
Child sexual abuse -- Fiction.
Child molesters -- Fiction.
Psychopaths -- Fiction.
Mothers of kidnapped children -- Fiction.
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Daddy
Love
/ Joyce Carol Oates.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Mysterious Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION OAT
Subjects
Kidnapping victims -- Fiction.
Brainwashing -- Fiction.
Child sexual abuse -- Fiction.
Child molesters -- Fiction.
Psychopaths -- Fiction.
Mothers of kidnapped children -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780802120991
0802120997
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
279 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Dinah Whitcomb seemingly has everything. A loving and successful husband, and a smart, precocious young son named Robbie. One day, their worlds are shattered when Dinah is attacked and Robbie is taken in a mall parking lot. Dinah, injured, attempts to follow, but is run over by the kidnapper's van, mangling her body nearly beyond repair. The kidnapper, a part-time Preacher named Chester Cash, calls himself
Daddy
Love
, as he has abducted, tortured, and raped several young boys into being his lover and as well as his 'son'. He confines Robbie in a device called an Wooden Maiden, in essence a small coffin, and renamed him 'Gideon'.
Daddy
Love
slowly brainwashes 'Gideon' into believing that he is
Daddy
Love
's real son, and any time the boy resists or rebels it is met with punishment beyond his wildest nightmares. As Dinah recovers from her wounds, her world and her marriage struggle to exist every day. Though it seems hopeless, she keeps a flicker of hope alive that her son is still alive. As Robbie grows older, he becomes more aware of just how monstrous
Daddy
Love
truly is. Though as a small boy he as terrified of what might happen if he disobeyed
Daddy
Love
, Robbie begins to realize that the longer he stays in the home of this demon, the greater chance he'll end up like
Daddy
Love
's other 'sons' who were never heard from again. Somewhere within this tortured young boy lies a spark of rebellion...and soon he sees just what lengths he must go to in order to have any chance at survival."--Publisher.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
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