Love and Fury: A Memoir
A Autobiography, Family, Memoir book. My thanks to Richard Hoffman and Goodreads First Reads Giveaway for...
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-FictionRichard 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 & 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...
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- Pages: 224 pages
- ISBN: 9780807044711 / 0
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My thanks to Richard Hoffman and Goodreads First Reads Giveaway for my copy of Love and Fury: A Memoir that I won in the Giveaway.The best aspect of Love and Fury is the emotions and frustrations when generations of a family fail to communicate and feel close. In this case between the son and his father but their struggle can relate... I feel like there's not much about this book I can say that hasn't already been addressed.It's straightforward, it's blunt and moving, it examines relationships on a number of levels that lets you dive into Richard Hoffman's life. It's an enjoyable read with sweet anecdotes and heartfelt reflections. I won this book from Goodreads some time ago and just now got too it. It had some interesting points, but he makes it a point from the start that he is an athiest, which I think gives it a different perspective than that of a Christian. Would I read it again? Probably not. But overall, it did have some interesting points.
