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Half the House: a Memoir (Harvest Book)
 
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Half the House: a Memoir (Harvest Book) (Paperback)

by Richard Hoffman (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Thomson Learning; 1st Harvest Ed edition (6 April 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0156004674
  • ISBN-13: 978-0156004671
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,113,881 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The personal story of Richard Hoffman describes his childhood in blue-collar, postwar Allentown, life in a family with two terminally ill children, struggle with and recovery from alcoholism, and confrontation with his father.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gives hope where we usually think there is none, 19 Aug 1997
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In Half the House Mr. Hoffman, like any good writer, is intimately concerned with truth, the minute, daily, specific reality of his experience in the rustbelt of Allentown, PA, in the nineteen fifties in working class America. His style is careful, descriptive, direct, and poetic -- but not personal. Half the House is written, as Mr. Hoffman is also a well-published poet, with detachment, technique, and maturity. Of the several memoirs I have read this year, only Half the House resolves its issues, its grimness, its pain in a health-promoting, realistic, peace-giving redemption. That final, moving scene between defensive father and guilty son, wherein each gives a little, then alot, then communicate genuinely and respectfully dissolving forty years of impediment to love, is the kind of real life forgiveness all of us only dare dream of. Half the House does it. As Nabokov once said it takes a deep spiritual sense to create a masterpiece. Half the House has the depth. Ron Morin
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