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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 See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 520,708 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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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime pleasure, 13 Mar 2008
By Georgina Watson (West Sussex, UK) - See all my reviews
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I am heartily disappointed in British publishers that they cannot support American literature of this calibre. I had to go to the USA site to get this book, but it was worth it! I too elongated the pleasure by limiting how much I read at a time and enjoyed my "down-time" by cultivating my own world around it. It is a rare thing to find a work such as this that captivates and offers the reader a better in-sight into this wonderful life! I liken it to Patrick Suskin's novel "Perfume" in that The Ha-Ha offers an awakening of ones own senses.
I am watching for Mr Kings next novel and do hope that the British Cinema will not repeat the mistake of our publishers by offering national screening of the film.
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