At five, Ingrid Boone loved her father with all the innocence and blind trust of childhood, believing him when he told her they would fly away in his favorite plane someday. But Ingrid's young life is shattered when this affectionate, violent man who learned to kill in Vietnam abandons her and her beautiful young mother in the wake of a violent crime. That is the day an essential truth vanishes from Ingrid's life. Fleeing to a small mountain community, Ingrid grows up in isolation and learns not to ask questions when her mother takes up with a string of faceless men. Her only solace is the blissful daydream in which she and her father soar through the skies in his plane -- an image that will continue to tantalize and torment her. Desperate to recapture this lost love, hungry for any kind of mercy at a man's hand, Ingrid allows boys and men to abuse her, searching for affection in the alcohol, drugs, and sex they offer. But it is with Enoch Skaggs, the charismatic leader of a murderous satanic cult, that Ingrid reaches the depths of degradation -- and witnesses something she shouldn't have seen. Yet it is in her blackest moment of despair -- when she is marked for death -- that Ingrid finds unexpected salvation ... and the will to reclaim her life and her heart again.
NY Times Book Review What keeps us coming back to Oates Country is her uncanny gift of making the page a window, with something happening on the other side that we'd swear was life itself.

Joyce Carol Oates

New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Dutton

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Penguin Publishing Group

Dutton Children's Books

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Virago

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New York, N.Y., U.S.A, New York State, 1997

United States, United States of America

New York, N.Y., U.S.A, 1998, ©1997

1st print, New York, 1998

First Edition, 1997

First Thus, 1998

London, 1999

obscured text on back cover

"A William Abrahams book."

282 pages ; 21 cm
A girl's need to find a substitute for her father who is never around makes her an easy prey for the charismatic leader of a Satanic biker gang and she becomes his "dog girl." She is Ingrid, daughter of a fighter pilot and a promiscuous mother from New York State. Eventually she escapes to rebuild a new life
"A William Abrahams book."

A Girl's Need To Find A Substitute For Her Father Who Is Never Around Makes Her An Easy Prey For The Charismatic Leader Of A Satanic Biker Gang And She Becomes His Dog Girl. She Is Ingrid, Daughter Of A Fighter Pilot And A Promiscuous Mother From New York State. Eventually She Escapes To Rebuild A New Life. Joyce Carol Oates. A William Abrahams Book.

Een jonge Amerikaanse vertelt haar psychotherapeut hoe ze zich als meisje van acht in de steek gelaten voelde door haar vader en hoe ze onder invloed is gekomen van een sadistische sekteleider

Follows a young woman from her early life on the run with her mother to her involvement with a cult and her struggle to free herself of its influence over her

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