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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Mysterious Press; First Edition edition (January 8, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802120997
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802120991
  • Product Dimensions: 1 x 5.8 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (78 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe horror of child abduction
By TChris TOP 500 REVIEWER on December 23, 2012
Format: Hardcover
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.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsAfter all that and then it's over....
By Kathleen Valentine on July 23, 2013
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 starsChester Cash, Serial Sex Predator and Murderer
By Explorer on March 13, 2013
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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 ...Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAnother tour de force
By Randall Neustaedter on February 8, 2013
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Joyce Carol Oates is a phenomenon. One of the most prolific literary authors of the modern era. This novel ranks with her most shocking and continues her reputation as a novelist who can portray the most evil characters of our culture with the ease and grace of a psychoanalyst. Her depiction is riveting and her writing is flawless. She is one of our most accessible modern authors, and she has won the hearts and minds of many readers. I have read nearly all her novels and, although some are uneven, this little gem ranks with her best character studies. I am just grateful that we have such a literary genius in our midst.
Of course if the material bothers you, avoid this book. It is disturbing and fascinating. Like many of her novels it allows the reader into the mindset of psychopaths and victims alike to experience the crime as it happens behind all of those media headlines.
You may be shocked and repulsed by the depravity, but you will not forget this author's uncanny abilities.
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1.0 out of 5 starstoo graphic in places for me

This book was horrible. Too graphic in places for me. It felt like all these horrible abuses against the abducted boy were gratuitous and meant to shock the reader. Read more

Published 8 months ago by singingcapybara
3.0 out of 5 starsDisturbing, but I know it happens. Story jumps ...

Disturbing, but I know it happens. Story jumps around just a bit, and in the end I was left feeling something more needed to be added.

Published 8 months ago by carol ann
2.0 out of 5 starsNot For Me...

Daddy Love was unlike most of the books I read. It was disturbing. It was irritating and annoying in its style of writing. It was without purpose. Read more

Published 8 months ago by KGR
3.0 out of 5 starsdisturbing!

What he heck kind of ending was that? I don't understand how Ms. Oates gets inside the heads of these psychopaths?

Published 9 months ago by Voracious Reader
4.0 out of 5 starsPretty good

Worth the read, but not quite as thrilling as some of Oates' other books. Not too fond of the ending

Published 10 months ago by Justine
1.0 out of 5 stars... book as the writing was so drawn out and boring. I was scanning...

I couldn't even finish the book as the writing was so drawn out and boring. I was scanning through 4-5 pages at a time just to get past the drawn out drivel of words. Read more

Published 10 months ago by Laura L. Lang
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

excellent

Published 12 months ago by Lori Pollock
5.0 out of 5 starsStuff of Nightmares

If you have small children, do NOT read “Daddy Love” by Joyce Carol Oates. You will never again take your small ones to playgrounds, shopping centers or walk across parking lots... Read more

Published 15 months ago by seniorchoice
5.0 out of 5 starsOates is amazing. Again!

I love this author and did something I don't usually do before reading this book. I read all of the reviews. Read more

Published 15 months ago by harlow
1.0 out of 5 starsAbsolutely Awful

I read another book written by Joyce Carol Oates and I absolutely hated it. Despite that, I thought I would give this novel a try. Read more

Published 15 months ago by Carl Alves

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