IF POSSIBLE,WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE ON POSTAGE-SOFT COVER MID  SIZE EDITION--Winner of the Colin Roderick Award for the Best Australian Book of the Year in 2001 and the National Biography Award in 2003'Rose Boys is a 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.' Age'A deeply felt, passionately uplifting story.' Weekend Australian This bestselling memoir sold over 25,000 copies when it was first releasedWhen Robert Rose is in an awful car accident, leaving him a quadriplegic, his glittering career as a footballer is over. Rose Boys is Peter Rose's moving tribute to his late brother and an incredible account of one family torn apart and brought together by tragedyAuthor is an award-winning poet, and editor of the Australian Book Review Author lives in MelbourneNew introduction by Brian Matthews