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A Child Called 'It'
- Narrated by: Brian Keeler
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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A Child Called 'It'
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Publisher's Summary
Dave Pelzer was brutally abused as a child by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother. She considered him a slave - no longer a boy, but an "it".
He was physically and mentally tortured and starved. The outside world knew nothing of the nightmare he experienced behind closed doors, and his father was aware of the abuse but turned to denial and alcohol. The abuse only fueled a determination to survive and become stronger.
He eventually found amazing strength from his experiences: both in himself and other people.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-09-2021
Truly Shocking
What a devastating story yet also an inspiration from a man who managed to capture his tortured life into words and continue to live and grow with his own family.
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- Marianna Debono
- 16-08-2021
Heartbreaking and amazing
Heartbreaking story of Davids’s childhood and cruelty of one mother towards her own son! Amazing how David survived those horrors and will power to live and not give up! Beautiful narrated by Brian Keeler this is a must listen book for us all because every one of us can help rather than turn a blind eye! I was a survivor of my own child and later husband abuse but it would’ve been a big help if I knew that help was out there! I read critics review and some people suggest that it was not as bad as David made it out- it is totally untrue- No body can invent or make up such a story, you have to live through it! Well done David for being a person you are today!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-09-2021
wow
What a strong Spirit, what an incredible and horrible experience.
Thank you for using this to create change in our world x
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- Samantha Rogers
- 11-10-2020
Amazing Novel
This is an incredible story as is the other two books in this series. However, it makes me wonder how much "truth" there is to this narrative.
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- Sue.Armstrong
- 21-03-2019
the level of child abuse this man suffered!!
very very enjoyable but at times very hard to hear what this man went through at the hands of his sadistic mother.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-04-2021
Heartbreaking but eye opening
As a victim of child abuse this story hit really hard but also helped me process my pain in some ways.
Very well written and narrated
well worth the listen
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- Anonymous User
- 31-12-2022
Sad and beautiful
Just wow! Words cannot express how this made me feel. Inspirational! He could have turned to a life of crime with all he had been through but chose to educate.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-01-2024
The point of view from David
I loved how it shows the little brain games mother would play with David and at such a young age he know what to do to make the beatings less worse
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- Anonymous User
- 29-08-2024
a boy named it
No child is supposed to suffer from the abuse that David did especially from the person you expect to provide him love and support.
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- Thomas martin
- 20-11-2020
Incomprehensible is so many ways.
Such a sad story of a helpless boy who had everyone reject him in desperate need for help until intervention years later. Some events are a little hard to believe to of occurred to the full extent of his recalling and seems to leave out some more pivotal information. But nonetheless a hard book to stomach especially if benefit of the doubt is given to the extent of his truth actually occurring.
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