The Little Prisoner Contributor(s): Elliott, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061561312 ISBN-13: 9780061561313 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2008 Annotation: A harrowing memoir of seventeen years of sexual and emotional child abuse followed by escape and redemption. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Self-help | Abuse - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.36" W x 7.96" (0.55 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: When Jane Elliott was four years old, the nightmare began. She became the helpless victim of a sociopath--bullied, dominated, and sexually abused by a man only fourteen years her senior: her stepfather. For nearly two decades she was held prisoner, both physically and emotionally. But at the age of twenty-one she escaped . . . and then she fought back. The Little Prisoner is the shocking, astonishing, and ultimately uplifting true story of one woman's shattering twenty-year ordeal--and how she triumphed against an evil and violent human monster when honesty and bravery were her only weapons. |
Contributor Bio(s): Elliott, Jane: - Jane Elliott is a pseudonym. The author first decided to tell her story to the police after taking inspiration from Dave Pelzer's powerful memoir A Child Called It and becoming convinced that she could no longer remain a silent victim of the stepfather who had kept her a virtual prisoner for so many years. |