Half the House, 20th Anniversary Edition
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Half the House, 20th Anniversary Edition by Richard Hoffman
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. The hardcover publication (1995) of this spare, poignant memoir (Time) resulted in the arrest of a child molester and the headline: Author's Writing on Abuse Brings New Victims Forward. Our 20th Anniversary Edition features a new introduction by Louise DeSalvo--author of Writing as a Way of Healing--contextualizing the events this book set in motion, the cries for help Hoffman received from men across the country, and the talk he had with an 11-year-old boy who thanked him for making it stop. HALF THE HOUSE, an unflinching autobiography about a blue-collar family struggling to care for two terminally ill children as the third child, the author, is subjected at age 10 to sexual abuse by his coach, is also a moving work of literature and a testament to the healing power of truthtelling. It offers heartening evidence... of the human capacity to endure and prevail (Washington Post).
Hoffman, Richard: - Richard Hoffman is the author of Without Paradise (Cedar Hill Publications, 2005), Half the House: A Memoir (New Rivers Press, 2005), Interference & Other Stories (New Rivers Press, 2009) and, most recently, EMBLEM (Barrow Street Press, 2011). His collection GOLD STAR ROAD won the 2006 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the 2008 Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club. He is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College and currently serves as Chair of PEN New England.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780898233391 |
| ISBN 10 | 0898233399 |
| Title | Half the House, 20th Anniversary Edition |
| Author | Richard Hoffman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Rivers Press |
| Year published | 2015-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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