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BRIT MCGINNIS
Success Not So Sweet
The End of Boys takes no prisoners with its
gritty, entrancing realism
A
ddiction memoirs can
be painfully boring. Bad
life, drugs, quick happy,
bad crash, recovery, happy again
forever. It’s the same structure.
Every time.
What ¿ rst grabs you about Peter
Brown Hoffmeister’s memoir The
End of Boys are the details. The
casual mention within the ¿ rst
three paragraphs of the voice
the author hears in his head. The
intelligent, deliberate description
of the taste of a gun barrel. The
tactfully worded insecurity he
feels about his 5’2” frame at the
age of 14. The details come hard,
grabbing hold of your brain and
refusing to let go.
Hoffmeister doesn’t write
like a classic “reformed addict,”
but rather like those young kids
with the wandering eyes you see
wearing hoodies and baseball
caps at the bus station. He writes
with no self-pity, no psychobabble
about the roots of his mental
state during whatever period of turmoil
he’s currently digging himself out of. The
author’s Eugene background is evident in
his pacing and delivery (yes, there is indeed
a Eugene style of speaking). All together, it
makes for a chilling and captivating read.
Hoffmeister gives us the man behind
the hoodie — and it’s a doozy of a portrait.
His father is depicted as a combination god
and fury, trying to make his son succeed
even if it kills him. Especially if it kills
him. His mother needs personal validation
so badly it leads her to both child abuse
and European art. His sister loses herself to
the conservative Christianity community,
alienating her dropout brother even further
from the family. All the while, the author’s
impossibly charming younger brother
jumps off the deep end, seeking redemption
from any other source but home.
Hoffmeister rebels against such
madness (as expected), but he tells his
tale in a voice that is refreshingly new.
He is no blind victim but the master of his
fate in every situation. Even in times of
intoxication, succumbing to abuse, serving
sentences of demerits at a private school,
there is a Zen-like serenity and acceptance.
Local readers will enjoy the references
to Eugene landmarks, such as Allan Bros.
Coffee. But, just like Hoffmeister himself,
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shape in Eugene, but it doesn’t stay there.
The battle at the heart of this memoir is
a question posed: What is the de¿ nition of
success? Throughout his life, Hoffmeister is
aggressively pushed to succeed. Get good
grades. Go to college. Stay clean. Not bolt.
Apologize. As a kid, Hoffmeister wanted
to be a good, pleasing son. He mourns
before going on a drinking binge, “Nobody
noticed when I made good decisions.”
This is another wonderful characteristic
that separates Boys from other troubled-
childhood memoirs: The author wants to
believe in the possibility of something
better. He knows there is hope for the future.
“There is no total transformation, but
a slow softening,” Hoffmeister offers in
the memoir’s afterward. There’s no ta-
da moment of reckoning at the end, no
Oedipal killing at the crossroads. Despite
all the slings and arrows stinging his soul,
unleashed by his own hands or others’,
Hoffmeister seeks not to succeed or exceed
expectations but simply to live. After all,
the classic American Dream of white
picket fences and 2.5 kids tends to lose its
appeal when it’s been peddled to you since
the age of six.
ew
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OREGON FOR Lane COUNTY Juvenile
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SPINK, JOSEPH JACK SPINK, LEAH NAOMI
SPINK, PAIGE ARIANNA SPINK, WYATT JAMES
SPINK, Children. Case No. 10-178J-03. Case
No. 10-179J-03. Case No. 10-180J-03. Case No.
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SUMMONS TO: Raymond Howard Spink.
A petition has been filed asking the court to
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