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"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."
- Harold S. Kushner
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ZIN Product Number: 10031721
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 192 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Harcourt
ISBN: 0156004674
Release Date: Jan 12, 2002
| |  | | | In Brief
"Hoffman's work has appeared in literary journals. . . . He currently works at a health clinic. His childhood, which he recounts in this memoir, was shattered by the deaths of two young brothers with muscular dystrophy, abusefrom his father, and sexual molestation by a coach. For a period, Hoffman himself turned to alcohol and drugs." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
Half the House is the story of a family repeatedly visited by death and suffering; of a boy burdened with a terrible secret; of a father and son estranged by grief and anger. Richard Hoffman recalls his boyhood in postwar, blue collar Allentown, PA, a world of breweries and ballfields, by turns idyllic and brutal. He depicts his family's struggles to maintain their dignity while caring for two of his brothers, who are terminally ill, and reveals how, under such circumstances, hope and denial become one; love and rage are inextricably fused; and silence and unreality threaten.
| | | | Annotation
Hoffman tells the story of a family repeatedly visited by death and suffering, of a wounded boy burdened with a terrible secret, of a father and son estranged by grief and anger. More than a boyhood memoir, this book is at once a moving elegy, an indictment of violence, a father and son story, and a moving testament to the healing power of remembering.
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