"Dave Pelzer's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality. Even after he was rescued, his life was haunted by memories of his years as the bruised, cowering ""It"" locked in his mother's basement. But he vowed to make something of his life anyway. With astonishing generosity of spirit, the author of A Child Called ""It"" and The Lost Boy continues the story of how a lost, nameless boy found himself at last."