![]() ![]() With stunning generosity of spirit, Dave Pelzer invites readers on his journey to discover how he turned shame into pride and rejection into acceptance. ![]() The more than two million readers of Pelzer's New York Times and international bestselling memoirs A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy know that he lived to tell his courageous story. This was the woman who told her son she could kill him any time she wanted to-and nearly did. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality, denying him food and clothing, torturing him in any way she could imagine. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance. In A Man Named Dave (his third book, published in 1999, which has spent 73 weeks on the best-seller list), Pelzer moves away from the subject of his childhood and adolescence. ![]() "All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. A Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzerās inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy of memoirs that began with A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy. ![]()
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