{"product_id":"9781922148278","title":"Rose Boys","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRose Boys\u003c\/i\u003e is Peter Rose's portrait of his brother. It is a heartbreaking account of a family united and ravaged by misfortune: a story of love, courage and endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis bestselling memoir comes with a new introduction by Brian Matthews.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Rose\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in Wangaratta, Victoria, and is principally known as a poet and memoirist. His first book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Vitriol\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1990. His fifth collection, \u003ci\u003eCrimson Crop\u003c\/i\u003e, won a Queensland Literary Award in 2012. In 2001 he published a family memoir, \u003ci\u003eRose Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, about his late brother Robert, who was an outstanding sportsman before a car accident left him a quadriplegic. \u003ci\u003eRose Boys\u003c\/i\u003e was a bestseller and won the 2003 National Biography Award. Rose is also the author of two novels, \u003ci\u003eA Case of Knives\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and \u003ci\u003eRoddy Parr\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). He has twice edited the annual anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Best Australian Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and is a frequent reviewer; his literary journalism has appeared in many publications. Throughout the 1990s he was a publisher at Oxford University Press. Since 2001 he has been editor of \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'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.' \u003ci\u003eMeanjin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 'A deeply felt, passionately uplifting story.' \u003ci\u003eWeekend Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A deep family story of suffering, love and passionate devotion, richly and freshly told.' Helen Garner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eRose Boys\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate and moving - though never maudlin - story of familial love...often simple, sometimes rich and lyrical, and always cliche free.' \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'I'm not sure when I last came across someone who has written so powerfully about death.' Martin Flanagan, \u003ci\u003eAge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183197438192,"sku":"9781922148278","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922148278_p0.jpg?v=1763633315","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922148278","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}