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A Man Named Dave: Summary and book reviews of A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer, plus links to an excerpt from A Man Named Dave and a biography of Dave Pelzer.

A Man Named Dave A Man Named Dave
A Story of Triumph and Foregiveness
by Dave Pelzer
Hardcover: Oct 1999,
284 pages.
Paperback: Sep 2000,
304 pages.

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Dave Pelzer's incredible and inspiring life story has already captured the interest of more than one million readers. A Man Named Dave is the long-awaited conclusion to his trilogy in which he describes how he triumphed over years of physical and emotional abuse from his parents to become a self-accepting and confident adult. Readers of Pelzer's previous two bestsellers await this book--the first of Pelzer's books to be available in hardcover--to learn how he finally confronts his pathologically abusive mother and his neglectful, alcoholic father in an effort to turn a childhood marked by rejection and emotional abuse into an adulthood filled with love and acceptance.

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Author Blurb  Jack Canfield, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul
A Child Called 'It' was so riveting, neither I nor my staff could put it down! Dave Pelzer's story does not focus on his life-threatening plight as much as his unyielding determination that inspires us all. Dave is a living example that all of us have the capability to better ourselves no matter what the odds. One's life is forever changed after living through the eyes of A Child Called 'It'.

Author Blurb  John Bradshaw, bestselling author of Homecoming
The Lost Boy stands shining as the premier book on the unique love and dedication that social services and foster families provide for our children in peril. Dave Pelzer is certainly a living testament of resilience, personal responsibility, and the triumph of the human spirit.

Author Blurb  Richard Paul Evans
A Man Named Dave, Dave Pelzer has delivered the fitting conclusion to a monumental series of books about courage and triumph. In this powerful book Pelzer demonstrates, as few have, that it is in the darkest skies that the stars are best seen.

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