Rose Boys
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What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years afterjust another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands ofothers who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want to examine my brother's life andreanimate him...
Robert Rose was a promising cricketer and footballers in the mould of his father, Bob,Collingwood's greatest player. Robert's brother, Peter, was on the way to a literary career as apoet and later a publisher.
On St Valentine's Day in 1974 a terrible car accident changed the Roses forever. For the nextquarter century Robert Rose lived as a quadriplegic.
Rose Boys is Peter Rose's portrait of his brother. It is a heartbreaking account of a family unitedand ravaged by misfortune: a story of love, courage and endurance.
This bestselling memoir comes with a new introduction by Brian Matthews.
Author: Peter Rose
Format: Paperback, 306 pages, 128mm x 198mm, 230 g
Published: 2013, Text Publishing, Australia
Genre: Autobiography: General
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What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years afterjust another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends, and thousands ofothers who hardly knew him, I want to go back there, I want to examine my brother's life andreanimate him...
Robert Rose was a promising cricketer and footballers in the mould of his father, Bob,Collingwood's greatest player. Robert's brother, Peter, was on the way to a literary career as apoet and later a publisher.
On St Valentine's Day in 1974 a terrible car accident changed the Roses forever. For the nextquarter century Robert Rose lived as a quadriplegic.
Rose Boys is Peter Rose's portrait of his brother. It is a heartbreaking account of a family unitedand ravaged by misfortune: a story of love, courage and endurance.
This bestselling memoir comes with a new introduction by Brian Matthews.
Rose Boys