• The Ha-Ha

  • By: Dave King
  • Narrated by: Richard Poe
  • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (19 ratings)

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The Ha-Ha

By: Dave King
Narrated by: Richard Poe
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Publisher's summary

Pushcart Prize nominee Dave King delivers a moving novel that explores the nature of family. Wounded in Vietnam, Howard Kapostash is unable to speak, read, or write, although his intelligence is normal. Now middle-aged, he lives a lonely existence. But then his former high school sweetheart entrusts her nine-year-old son to Howard when she enters drug rehab. Suddenly a father figure, Howard begins to open up, and the emotional wounds of his past start to heal.

©2005 Dave King (P)2005 Recorded Books

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“… lovingly rendered in careful, steady prose … explores familial bonds arising between people with no blood ties … with poise and heart.”—Publishers Weekly

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Vietnam Vet Struggles with Handicap

This novel has a powerful voice that takes us through many human emotions: the solitude of coming home, the joy of loving a child, the pain of losing one's first true love, jealousy and anger when she leaves for another love, the madness and frustration of being mute and unable to communicate and finally the serenity of accepting the blessings of others.

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