Half The House by Richard Hoffman (1995 edition)
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Overview: Half the House depicts Hoffman’s family as his parents struggle to care for two of his brothers who are terminally ill with muscular dystrophy. Hoffman recounts the sexual abuse he suffered at the age of ten by Tom Feifel, the coach of the 110 pound football team. Feifel spends a lot of time with Scooter, a boy a grade ahead of Hoffman at school. Feifel starts to pick Hoffman up for practice and shows him pornography. Hoffman becomes his new favored companion and is shown adult pornography on 8mm movies and pornographic cartoons featuring Disney cartoon characters. He was repeatedly molested and raped by Feifel for some months until he threatened to say something in confessional. Feifel then ignores him and moves on to another boy.
Hoffman is also physically abused by his alcoholic father.
Many years later, now married with two children, Hoffman confronts his father. There is a reconciliation and he brings his own children to visit.
At the age of 68, Feifel was arrested, convicted, and imprisoned largely as the result of the publication of Hoffman’s memoir. He had been arrested twice before for sexually assaulting young boys but had never been sent to jail. In 1995, a number of boys agreed to testify, and Hoffman spoke to one of them 11-year-old Michael, to thank him and give him confidence. Hoffman has said that “it has been determined that he violated upwards of 400 boys during his nearly four decades of coaching”.
Genre: Memoir
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