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In My Father's Arms : A True Story of Incest by Walter A. de Milly III (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-100299165108
ISBN-139780299165109
eBay Product ID (ePID)284387
Product Key Features
Book TitleIn My Father's Arms : a True Story of Incest
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicParenting / Fatherhood, Abuse, General
Publication Year1999
GenreFamily & Relationships, Self-Help, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorWalter A. De Milly III
Book SeriesLiving Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-006275
Reviews"Walter de Milly has written a sensitive and compelling account of father-son incest. In spite of the suffering portrayed, the account also gives testimony to the strength of family bonds, and to the courage and resilience of the human spirit."-Fred S. Berlin, M.D., Director of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma, "Walter de Milly has written a sensitive and compelling account of father-son incest. In spite of the suffering portrayed, the account also gives testimony to the strength of family bonds, and to the courage and resilience of the human spirit."--Fred S. Berlin, M.D., Director of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma
SynopsisThe TV-perfect family of Walter de Milly III was like many others in the American South of the 1950s--seemingly close-knit, solidly respectable, and active in the community. Tragically, Walter's deeply troubled father would launch his family on a perilous journey into darkness. To the outside world, this man is a prominent businessman, a dignified Presbyterian, and a faithful husband; to Walter, he is an overwhelming, handsome monster. Whenever the two are together, young Walter becomes a sexual plaything for his father; father and son outings are turned into soul-obliterating nightmares. Walter eventually becomes a successful businessman only to be stricken by another catastrophe: his father, at the age of seventy, is caught molesting a young boy. Walter is asked to confront his father. Walter convenes his family, and in a private conference with a psychiatrist, the father agrees to be surgically castrated. De Milly's portraits of his relationships with his father and mother, and the confrontation that leads to his father's bizarre and irreversible voluntary "cure," are certain to be remembered long after the reader has set aside this powerful contribution to the literature of incest survival., An account of the author's relationship with his father who repeatedly sexually abused him, this text also reveals the author's relationship with his mother, and his confrontation, as an adult, with his father, over the abuse of another young boy and his father's subsequent castration., The TV-perfect family of Walter de Milly III was like many others in the American South of the 1950s--seemingly close-knit, solidly respectable, and active in the community. Tragically, Walter's deeply troubled father would launch his family on a perilous journey into darkness. To the outside world, this man is a prominent businessman, a dignified Presbyterian, and a faithful husb∧ to Walter, he is an overwhelming, handsome monster. Whenever the two are together, young Walter becomes a sexual plaything for his father; father and son outings are turned into soul-obliterating nightmares. Walter eventually becomes a successful businessman only to be stricken by another catastrophe: his father, at the age of seventy, is caught molesting a young boy. Walter is asked to confront his father. Walter convenes his family, and in a private conference with a psychiatrist, the father agrees to be surgically castrated. De Milly's portraits of his relationships with his father and mother, and the confrontation that leads to his father's bizarre and irreversible voluntary "cure," are certain to be remembered long after the reader has set aside this powerful contribution to the literature of incest survival.
LC Classification NumberHV6570.8.T35D45 1999
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