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The Ha-Ha (Hardcover)
by Dave King (Author) "WHY AM I HERE? ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (1 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316156108
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316156103
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 3.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,016,187 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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It's been 30 years since a Vietnam War injury left Howard Kapostash unable to speak, read or write. Since then he has only been able to communicate with sounds and gestures - a condition that makes him appear slow and disturbed. but inside his head Howie is the same man he was before the war - longing for his sweetheart Sylvia, mourning his parents and his chance at a family. However, his solitude is cut short when Sylvia goes into rehab and leaves her nine year old son, Ryan, in the care of Howard. What ensues is an engaging tale of triumph and heartbreak.

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Rendered unable to speak, read, or write after a Vietnam War injury thirty years earlier, Howard Kapostash feels trapped by his disability until his high school sweetheart, recently forced into rehab, asks him to care for her nine-year-old son.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Paean to Love and Patience, 2 April 2005
By J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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It's a cliché but I found myself rationing the amount of this book I would read each day because I didn't want it to end and I wanted to savor its unselfconscious wisdom slowly. Frankly, I've never read anything like it. It's told from inside the head of a man whose Vietnam War head injury leaves him unable to speak. But his internal monolog is so rich, observant, feelingful that the pain of his not being able to express himself except through his actions becomes a paean to the virtues of patience over adversity, expression of love through loving actions rather than words, and the wisdom of living life as it is, not as it might have been. King's prose is carefully and poetically chosen. His observations of the little things feel true and important. I am ready to predict from this first novel that this is an important writer just revving up for a huge career.

Scott Morrison

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