Half the House A Memoir
Half the House A Memoir by Richard Hoffman, published by Harcourt Brace & Company in 1996, is a poignant exploration of personal and familial struggles. This reprint edition spans 190 pages and is presented in English. The memoir delves into the author’s experiences growing up in postwar, blue-collar America, detailing the challenges faced by his family as they cared for two terminally ill children and the impact of the sexual abuse he endured at the age of ten.
Readers will find a candid narrative that addresses themes of abuse, family dynamics, and the complexities of relationships shaped by grief and trauma. In a new afterword, Hoffman reflects on the broader implications of his story, including the responses from individuals who reached out to him after the book’s initial release. This memoir not only recounts personal experiences but also highlights the importance of truth-telling in the healing process, making it a significant contribution to the discourse on family and relationships.
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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 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).
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