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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.
- Sales Rank: #182997 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-01-08
- Released on: 2013-01-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Oates’ daring journey through the labyrinths of criminal minds takes a fierce turn in this unflinching yet restrained tale of the sick symbiosis between an abducted child and his fiendish captor. Dinah, a white woman living in Michigan, defied her nasty mother to marry Whit, a black radio personality. They love and adore their son, Robbie, who is a smart if high-strung five-year-old when a stranger ambushes Dinah in a mall parking lot, grabs her son, and nearly kills her when she desperately runs after his van. Known as Chester Cash, a secretive itinerant preacher and craftsman, this monster calls himself Daddy Love as he conducts his gruesome regime of torture, rape, and reward, which we witness from both his and Robbie’s perspectives over the course of six grim years. For all the horror and sensationalism of her wrenching subject, Oates judiciously charts Robbie’s brutal metamorphosis and Dinah’s resilience in an urgently compelling and drastically revealing study of evil, habitual terror, and survival. HIGH-DEMAND BACK STORY: Expect heated interest from Oates devotees and all readers drawn to strongly wrought, psychologically incisive dark tales. --Donna Seaman
Review
"After all these years, Joyce Carol Oates can still give me the creeps. Oates has more knives to throw before bringing this harrowing tale to a close — but she saves the sharpest one for the very last page." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
"Wrenching, tightly written and focused...a grim examination of how humans cope with unspeakable physical and psychological pain. She illuminates the darkest corners and shows us the startled, troubled creatures hiding there, nursing their wounds, staring back at us, their kin." --Cleveland Plain-Dealer
"I haven't met a Joyce Carol Oates story or novel that I didn't like and Daddy Love is no exception." –Huntington News
"Haunting, terrifying, disturbing.” –Atlantic Wire
“Joyce Carol Oates, author of dozens of grim novels, knows the dark side of life better than most and explores it here in a lean and disturbing tale that reverberates after its ending.” --Columbus Dispatch
“Oates makes us squirm as she forces us to see some of the action through Love’s twisted and warped perspective.” --Kirkus Reviews
“This unsettling tale showcases Oates’s masterful storytelling.” --Publishers Weekly
“An urgently compelling and drastically revealing study of evil, habitual terror, and survival.” --Booklist
"Daddy Love is a book not to be taken lightly...(it) pushes us to confront what lurks behind the front door." --New York Journal of Books
"Joyce Carol Oates’s latest book is a horror. As in horror story, frightening, alarmingly realistic. The monsters in Daddy Love are people, not fantastical creatures from the deep or outer space. They are human." --PopMatters
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of such national best-sellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. She has been nominated for six National Book Awards, winning for Them.
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25 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
The horror of child abduction
By TChris
Joyce Carol Oates writes about horrors that none of us want to imagine, and does it with such seductive prose we can't stop reading. Yet Oates' great talent is to find the horrific in both the commonplace and in the unthinkable. Daddy Love begins with a momentarily misplaced car that leads to a child's barely contained panic and a mother's sense of failure, a small horror that evolves into the larger horror of child abduction.
Part one takes place in 2007. Dinah Whitcomb has invested "all of her volcanic Mommy love" in her only child, Robbie. She strives to make every moment a learning experience for her five-year-old son. She faults herself when she feels tired, because a happy mother should always feel strong. Later she will blame herself for letting go of Robbie's hand when Robbie is snatched from her. Although she is faultless -- the abductor strikes her, first with a fist and then, when she runs after him, with a van -- Dinah feels "the defeat of her life as a mother."
The first four chapters tell the same brief story, each from a slightly different perspective, adding or subtracting facts, revealing more of Dinah's life, her sense of connection with her husband and son. In chapter five, time again begins to move forward. But can life really move forward for someone who has been as badly damaged, both physically and emotionally, as Dinah?
In the chapters that follow, Oates changes the perspective, allowing the reader to follow Robbie and his kidnapper. Oates reveals the demented mind of Daddy Love with the same skill that makes her portrayal of Dinah's tormented mind so convincing. It is nonetheless disappointing that Oates chose to make the character so purely evil, when a more nuanced approach -- a sex offender who struggles against urges he can't control, as is usually the case -- would have been less obvious.
Part two takes the reader to 2013. Robbie, now known as Gideon Cash, is in sixth grade. His true history, unknown to the teachers who believe he is Daddy Love's autistic son, is reflected only in his macabre drawings. Perspective changes again as the reader sees the world through Robbie's eyes. And as she does with Dinah, Oates enters Robbie's mind with uncommon insight. She presents a more subtle view of Robbie than is typical in fictional portrayals of abuse victims. Robbie's personality and behavior provide some of the novel's most thought-provoking moments.
Although Oates' prose is always first-rate, it doesn't soar to the same height in Daddy Love as it does in her best work. The story isn't particularly innovative. It is, in fact, too predictable to have the impact Oates probably intended. After the strong opening chapters, I felt let down by the pedestrian path that the plot follows.
The characters, as a reader expects from Oates, are fully developed and completely convincing. On the other hand, while Oates often paints portraits of victims, the characters in Daddy Love are not as memorable as those some of her other fiction: they evoke sympathy in ways that are just too easy, too predictable. To her credit, however, Oates avoids coating her characters in sugar. She understands that people rarely respond to tragedy in ways that make them noble and likable, as so many writers would have us believe. Dinah wouldn't be the ideal spokeswoman for mothers of abducted children; her connection with reality is tenuous, her fragility is unnerving. Dinah's husband realizes that he's lost perspective, that he's defined his entire life by a single catastrophic event, but he's powerless to change. Although these aren't Oates' best creations, it is for the characters rather than the plot that I recommend Daddy Love.
Be warned: Some scenes involving Daddy Love and Robbie are disturbing, and while none of them are described in graphic detail, sensitive readers should be cautioned that child abuse is very much a part of the book's content. There are also a couple of chapters that will make dog lovers cringe. Oates has never been a writer who shelters her readers from the darkest realities of life. She does not do so here.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
After all that and then it's over....
By Kathleen Valentine
This is a very, very, very disturbing book and not a particularly well-written one. I love Oates most of the time but in this story--which is all too believable--I felt she lingered a bit much on the brutality and the sordid details and then left us hanging at the end. In one sense, yes, we know that a child who went through what Robbie went through is not destined for a good outcome but I found the ending abrupt and a bit lacking. I am not sure I would recommend it to anyone without warning them to be prepared to be horrified and then disappointed.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Chester Cash, Serial Sex Predator and Murderer
By Explorer
Chet "Daddy Love" Cash lives in the hamlet of Kittatinny Falls, NJ. He presents himself to the locals as an artist, a bearded, youngish muscular mountain man who specializes in macramé. He travels around the country in the guise of an aging, vital preacher, gray bearded, in black with a distinctive crimson vest. He drives an old van that he repaints time and again. In the van, he carries a small box, fashioned by him in the shape of a coffin with a divided, hinged lid, like Dutch doors. In the box, when he needs a replacement, he stores a boy, snuggly fitted, gagged, a boy usually of six, a boy sealed in stark terror, though the real terror comes later under the stern training routine of his captor, Daddy Love.
Life and literature have given us some heinous criminals who make even the most avid anti-death penalty advocates reconsider their position. Many of them pale in the shadow of Oates's Daddy Love. I can say unreservedly that this novel will raise your blood pressure and keep you awake at night, especially if you are a parent or a grandparent. Child abduction and abuse arouse feelings of abhorrence and fear in us, without us actually feeling within ourselves what a wounded child feels. With her well known and respected, though not always liked, psychological legerdemain, Oates enables you to feel in the most visceral way the blinding terror that a stolen child feels, and the total desperation and self recrimination of suffering parents. Let that serve as both a recommendation and a warning.
For about the best true recounting of child abduction, you'll also want to read A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Dugard, abducted by Phillip Garrido and held captive for 18 years. Dugard wrote the book as part of her recovery program; she wrote it, not, as often is the case, a hired scribe. Her story is sad and inspirational, something to hold onto when all seems hopeless.
As for DADDY LOVE, I've added it to my list of the very best crime fiction, in particular about a serial killer. It joins another of her books about a different sort of serial killer, Quentin P., in Zombie: A Novel, as well as others like The Collector (Back Bay Books), i, Killer, and Josie and Jack: A Novel, to cite a few.
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