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Half the House : A Memoir by Richard Hoffman (1995, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarcourt Trade Publishers

ISBN-10015100174X

ISBN-139780151001743

eBay Product ID (ePID)4038252322

Product Key Features

TopicParenting / Fatherhood, Abuse / Child Abuse, General

Publication Year1995

Book TitleHalf the House : a Memoir

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreFamily & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorRichard Hoffman

FormatHardcover

Additional Product Features

LCCN95-007496

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal974.8/27 B

SynopsisThe headlines that followed the hardcover publication of this unflinching memoir testify to its power: "Poet's memoirs lead to arrest of alleged child molester," "Author's writing on abuse brings new victims forward." In a new afterword, Richard Hoffman writes about the events his book set in motion, the cries for help he received from men across the country, and the talk he had with an eleven-year-old boy who thanked him "for making it stop." Against the backdrop of postwar, blue-collar America, Half the House depicts a family's struggles to care for two terminally ill children, recounts the sexual abuse to which the author, at age ten, was subjected by his coach, and explores the ways in which grief and rage estrange those who need each other most. A testament to the healing power of truth telling, this "spare, poignang" memoir (Time) "offers heartening evidence, to borrow William Faulkner's phrase, of the human capacity to endure and prevail" (Washington Post).

LC Classification NumberF159.A44H64 1995