Half the House is the story of a family repeatedly visited by death and suffering; of a boy burdened with a terrible secret; of a father and son estranged by grief and anger. Richard Hoffman recalls his boyhood in postwar, blue collar Allentown, PA, a world of breweries and ballfields, by turns idyllic and brutal. He depicts his family's struggles to maintain their dignity while caring for two of his brothers, who are terminally ill, and reveals how, under such circumstances, hope and denial become one; love and rage are inextricably fused; and silence and unreality threaten.

Half the House: A Memoir

History

Hoffman, Richard

Americas

Harcourt

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

Half The House: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

This impressive collection of readings illustrates that the history of the world is as much about the relationships among societies as it is about transformations and continuities within societies. Exchanges: A Global History Reader is designed as an introduction to the discipline of world history. Unlike other source collections, Exchanges helps students look beyond strictly delineated regionalism and chronological structures to understand history as a product of ongoing debate. Structured around a series of interconnected themes and debates, and pairing both primary and secondary sources, Exchanges challenges both students and teachers to rethink history.

Exchanges: A Global History Reader, Volume 2

Getz, Trevor

Rodriguez, Jarbel

World

Pearson

A comprehensive resource for anyone involved in intellectual property litigation With Intellectual Property Damages you'll get the basics of the intellectual property litigation process, the essential "rules" in postulating damages theories, the basics of IP law, the economic policies that are the foundation for much of IP litigation, the skills necessary to correctly calculate damages in IP cases--and more! Order your copy today!

Intellectual Property Damages: Guidelines and Analysis

Glick, Mark A.

Reymann, Lara A.

Business & Money

wiley

The first supplement to Intellectual Property Damages: Guidelines and Analysis contains the following new chapters: 
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Intellectual Property Damages: Guidelines and Analysis, 2004 Supplement

Intellectual Property

An acclaimed author reflects on his upbringing in a post–World War II blue-collar family and comes to terms with the racism, sexism, and other toxic values he inherited. Finalist for the 2014 New England Book Award in Non-Fiction Richard Hoffman sometimes felt as though he had two fathers: the real one who raised him and an imaginary version, one he talked to on the phone, and one he talked to in his head. Although Hoffman was always close to the man, his father remained a mystery, shrouded in a perplexing mix of tenderness and rage. When his father receives a terminal cancer diagnosis, Hoffman confronts the depths and limitations of their lifelong struggle to know each other, weighing their differences and coming to understand that their yearning and puzzlement was mutual. With familial relationships at its center, Love &amp; Fury draws connections between past and present, from the author’s grandfather, a “breaker boy” sent down into the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania at the age of ten, to his young grandson, whose father is among the estimated one million young black men incarcerated today. In a critique of culture and of self, Hoffman grapples with the way we have absorbed and incorporated the compelling imagery of post WWII America and its values, especially regarding class, war, women, race, masculinity, violence, divinity, and wealth. A masterful memoirist, Hoffman writes not only to tell a gripping story but also to understand, through his family, the social and ethical contours of American life. At the book’s core are the author’s questions about boyhood, fatherhood, and grandfatherhood, and about the changing meaning of what it means to be a good man in America, now and into the future.

Love and Fury: A Memoir

Parenting & Relationships

Beacon Press

Book by Elledge, Paul W., Hoffman, Richard

Romantic and Victorian: Studies in Memory of William H. Marshall

Literature & Fiction

Elledge, Paul W.

History & Criticism

Associated Univ Pr

“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 headline: “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).
Richard Hoffman’s work, both prose and verse, has appeared in numerous literary reviews and anthologies. Half the House was awarded the Boston Athenaeum Readers’ Prize in 1996. His most recent book is Without Paradise (Cedar Hill), a collection of poems. He is currently writer-in-residence in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College; he also serves on the faculty of the Teachers as Scholars Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is currently a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow in fiction.

Half the House

Memoirs

New Rivers Press

Fiction. Richard Hoffman, author of the acclaimed memoir Half the House and of two prize-winning collections of poetry, gives us a powerful first collection of stories. Its title novella tells the story of a child in a blue- collar family who is victimized by a serial predator. The other stories, raw and intimate, explore the difficult struggles to come of age and to live as a man in these times.

Interference & Other Stories (American Fiction)

United States

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Books by Hoffman, Richard

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Half the House: A Memoir

Half The House: A Memoir

Exchanges: A Global History Reader, Volume 2

Intellectual Property Damages: Guidelines and Analysis

Intellectual Property Damages: Guidelines and Analysis, 2004 Supplement

Love and Fury: A Memoir

Love and Fury: A Memoir

Romantic and Victorian: Studies in Memory of William H. Marshall

Half the House

Interference & Other Stories (American Fiction)