Half the House : A Memoir

Name: Half the House : A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780151001743

ISBN-10: 015100174X

ISBN-13: 9780151001743

Edition: 1995

Authors: Richard Hoffman

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Harcourt Trade Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English