Half The House: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0156004674 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Poet Hoffman's memoir of a childhood in which he was sexually assaulted by his sports coach led to the arrest and recent conviction of the man responsible.
The 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
Richard Hoffman is a contributor for the following Houghton Mifflin Company Title: Half The House
"Remarkable" according to Violet Quill. I read this book many years ago. I can't believe I never wrote a review! "Half the House" is remarkable for so many reasons: its lyricism, its structure, its honesty, its lack of sentimentality even while describing unbearable truths. As a writer, I am simply in awe. As a reader, I am simply grateful.. A quick read, but still very good As someone who was born and raised in the suburbs, this book really allows the reader to connect with it instantly simply by its nostalgic feelings of home and familiarity. Not just from Richard’s good memories, but also the painful ones such as his mother’s funeral in the beginning of the book. Everything feels like something you yourself . Gives hope where we usually think there is none Ronm@world.std.com In Half the House Mr. Hoffman, like any good writer, is intimately concerned with truth, the minute, daily, specific reality of his experience in the rustbelt of Allentown, PA, in the nineteen fifties in working class America. His style is careful, descriptive, direct, and poetic -- but not personal. Half the House is written, as Mr. Hoffman is also a