Rose Boys

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Robert Rose was a promising cricketer and footballer in the mould of his father, Bob, Collingwood's greatest player. Robert's brother, Peter, was on the way to a literary career as a poet and later a publisher. On St Valentine's Day in 1974 a terrible car accident changed the Roses forever. For the next quarter century Robert Rose lived as a quadriplegic. Peter Rose creates a life-like portrait of his brother in this story of love, courage and endurance.

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'Rose Boys is the wrenching, stunning account of a family living for about a quarter of a century in the sometimes tightening, sometimes loosening, but never absent, grip of a catastrophe.' -- Brian Matthews 'A book of immense emotional force that is a eulogy to his brother, a tribute to his parents and a powerful demonstration of the redemptive quality of suffering.' Meanjin ' A deeply felt, passionately uplifting story.' Weekend Australian ' A deep family story of suffering, love and passionate devotion, richly and freshly told.' -- Helen Garner 'Rose Boys is an intimate and moving-though never maudlin-story of familial love...often simple, sometimes rich and lyrical, and always cliche free.' Time 'A moving story expertly told.' -- Andrew Riemer Sydney Morning Herald 'I'm not sure when I last came across someone who has written so powerfully about death.' -- Martin Flanagan Age 'Rose's powerful book is about finding words to describe those events that leave us in silence.' -- David McCooey HEAT 'Rose Boys is a wonderful story about a relationship between men. It touches core issues of identity and loss but does so in a quietly undemonstrative manner.' -- Michael McGirr Eureka Street 'Eloquent, profoundly moving, deep-seeing into the mysteries of human suffering...a special book about a special man and the diminished life he managed so richly to share with others.' Australian Review of Books 'Far removed from conventional sports writing, this is a sad and beautiful essay on suffering, fortitude, heroism and love...[it] reads like a fine and sensitive novel.' Tain

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