Half the Way Home

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Publication Year:
2005

ISBN-13: 9780547561561

<DIV><B>A New York Times Notable Book: &ldquo;An extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love&rdquo; (Michiko Kakutani, <I>The New York Times</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> From the author of <I>King Leopold&rsquo;s Ghost, Half the Way Home</I> is a compelling memoir about a complicated father-son relationship.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Adam Hochschild never used the words &ldquo;Dad&rdquo; or &ldquo;Daddy,&rdquo; just &ldquo;Father.&rdquo; The only son of Harold Hochschild&mdash;the head of a multinational mining corporation&mdash;Adam always felt as though his father remained purposefully at a distance&mdash;a demanding, immovable pillar to be respected and sometimes feared.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Here, in lyrical prose, Hochschild recounts his privileged upbringing at his family&rsquo;s estate in the Adirondacks, his coming-of-age in the tumultuous 1960s, and his enduringly conflicted relationship with his father. But as a boy grows into a man, times change and perspectives shift, and a chance for reconciliation emerges from the space between.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Hailed by Studs Terkel as &ldquo;an exquisite memoir of a boy growing up,&rdquo; <I>Half the Way Home </I>is ultimately the story of a father and his son, and the unexpected peace finally made between them. &ldquo;It is a primer on the upper class and on class itself, a series of meditations on the burden of wealth to the liberal consciousness and even a commentary on what it means to be a Jew in America.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;. This is a fine and moving book&rdquo; (<I>People</I>)<I>.</I></DIV>