简介
书名：Half the House
作者：Richard Hoffman
简介：“Ultimately a story of love, reconciliation, and triumph over adversity.”— Library Journal “A scorching account of the dark underside of family life.”—Richard Selzer “Wonderfully written.”— Kirkus Reviews “A book of unsparing and at times brutal candor . . . reminding us of the fragility of childhood and the costs it exacts upon the adults we become.”— The Washington Post The hardcover publication of this unflinching memoir resulted in the arrest of an alleged child molester and the following “Author’s Writing on Abuse Brings New Victims Forward.” In a new afterword to this tenth-anniversary edition from New Rivers Press, Richard Hoffman writes about the events his book set in motion, the cries for help he received from men across the country, and the talk he had with an 11-year-old boy who thanked him “for making it stop.” But this 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 is a “spare, poignant” memoir ( TIME ) that “offers heartening evidence . . . of the human capacity to endure and prevail” ( The Washington Post ).
作者：Richard Hoffman
简介：“Ultimately a story of love, reconciliation, and triumph over adversity.”— Library Journal “A scorching account of the dark underside of family life.”—Richard Selzer “Wonderfully written.”— Kirkus Reviews “A book of unsparing and at times brutal candor . . . reminding us of the fragility of childhood and the costs it exacts upon the adults we become.”— The Washington Post The hardcover publication of this unflinching memoir resulted in the arrest of an alleged child molester and the following “Author’s Writing on Abuse Brings New Victims Forward.” In a new afterword to this tenth-anniversary edition from New Rivers Press, Richard Hoffman writes about the events his book set in motion, the cries for help he received from men across the country, and the talk he had with an 11-year-old boy who thanked him “for making it stop.” But this 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 is a “spare, poignant” memoir ( TIME ) that “offers heartening evidence . . . of the human capacity to endure and prevail” ( The Washington Post ).
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