Cry Out! [Hardcover]

Phil E. Quinn (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Abingdon Pr (April 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0687100151
• ISBN-13: 978-0687100156
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,447,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe they stopped printing this book!..., February 2, 2001

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Lex Preistner (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cry Out! (Hardcover)

Every so often I read a book that really clicks with me, and I can feel and live through the story with the author. This was one such book.

In the early 1950s, Child welfare removes young "Peter" from his family and places him in foster care with his younger brother. Told from the confused perspective of a little boy, this book shocked and astounded me from the first page, made all the more astounding by the fact that someone actually lived that life. From then on, things only get worse for young Peter. He is mistreated and scorned, but this is only the beginning. At the age of eleven he is adopted by two of the most vicious foster parents I have ever read about. Like Dave Pelzers' "A child called IT" the injustices suffered by Peter are almost to horrible to read about. But, like Pelzer and so many others, Quinn eventually discovers that he is stronger than he previously thought, and that life is still beautiful, and that hope is never misplaced.

READ THIS BOOK!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars YOU ARE NOT ALONE., August 2, 2002

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JOHN D THOMPSON (NEW YORK, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cry Out! (Paperback)

Some years ago while looking through a magazine (I think it was the NEW YORKER) I saw a very small advertisment for this book & instantly knew I had to have it. Abused as a child by several family members & even a few people outside the family I grew up wondering if I was the only one. I really needed this book & since finding it I keep looking for memoirs by other fellow sufferers. It is very important to me to know there are others out there. Since I am too close to the material to give a balanced opinion let me just say I very much understand why the author wrote in the third person & he absolutely captures, for me, how alone the experience made me feel. This is not a club of which I wish to be a member but it is very comforting to know I am not the only one.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The story of one boys journey through horrific child abuse., November 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cry Out! (Hardcover)

This book is not an easy read. In fact the physical emotional and mental pain is so intensely conveyed through Peter, the hero and survivor of this horrific story, that you may need to occasionally put the book down. However, you will eventually want to finish this book and read the sequel, Renegade Saint, by the same author.