Half the House, 20th Anniversary Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780898233391)

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).

Author: Richard Hoffman
ISBN-10: 0898233399
ISBN-13: 9780898233391
Publisher: New Rivers Press
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2015
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d