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Daddy Love / Joyce Carol Oates.

ISBN: 9780802120991 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0802120997 (hbk.)
Physical Description: 279 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Mysterious Press, c2013.

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (Author).

Summary:

Kidnapping a latest victim in a string of young boys he tortures and rapes, a self-styled preacher confines the child in a small box and gradually brainwashes him over subsequent years into believing that they are father and son; while the boy's mother, who was savagely injured during the abduction, clings to hope that her son is alive.

Part-time preacher Chester Cash calls himself Daddy Love. He has abducted, tortured, and raped several young boys into being his lover and his 'son'. Kidnapping Robbie from his mother at a mall, he confines the child in a small box and gradually brainwashes him over subsequent years into believing that they are father and son. Dinah, the boy's mother, who was savagely injured during the abduction, clings to hope that her son is alive.