Author: Peter Rose
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 192214827X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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. Rose Boys 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. This bestselling memoir comes with a new introduction by Brian Matthews. Peter Rose grew up in Wangaratta, Victoria, and is principally known as a poet and memoirist. His first book of poetry, The House of Vitriol, appeared in 1990. His fifth collection, Crimson Crop, won a Queensland Literary Award in 2012. In 2001 he published a family memoir, Rose Boys, about his late brother Robert, who was an outstanding sportsman before a car accident left him a quadriplegic. Rose Boys was a bestseller and won the 2003 National Biography Award. Rose is also the author of two novels, A Case of Knives (2005) and Roddy Parr (2010). He has twice edited the annual anthology The Best Australian Poems 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 Australian Book Review. '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 'I'm not sure when I last came across someone who has written so powerfully about death.' Martin Flanagan, Age
Rose Boys
Author: Peter Rose
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 192214827X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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. Rose Boys 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. This bestselling memoir comes with a new introduction by Brian Matthews. Peter Rose grew up in Wangaratta, Victoria, and is principally known as a poet and memoirist. His first book of poetry, The House of Vitriol, appeared in 1990. His fifth collection, Crimson Crop, won a Queensland Literary Award in 2012. In 2001 he published a family memoir, Rose Boys, about his late brother Robert, who was an outstanding sportsman before a car accident left him a quadriplegic. Rose Boys was a bestseller and won the 2003 National Biography Award. Rose is also the author of two novels, A Case of Knives (2005) and Roddy Parr (2010). He has twice edited the annual anthology The Best Australian Poems 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 Australian Book Review. '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 'I'm not sure when I last came across someone who has written so powerfully about death.' Martin Flanagan, Age
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 192214827X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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. Rose Boys 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. This bestselling memoir comes with a new introduction by Brian Matthews. Peter Rose grew up in Wangaratta, Victoria, and is principally known as a poet and memoirist. His first book of poetry, The House of Vitriol, appeared in 1990. His fifth collection, Crimson Crop, won a Queensland Literary Award in 2012. In 2001 he published a family memoir, Rose Boys, about his late brother Robert, who was an outstanding sportsman before a car accident left him a quadriplegic. Rose Boys was a bestseller and won the 2003 National Biography Award. Rose is also the author of two novels, A Case of Knives (2005) and Roddy Parr (2010). He has twice edited the annual anthology The Best Australian Poems 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 Australian Book Review. '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 'I'm not sure when I last came across someone who has written so powerfully about death.' Martin Flanagan, Age
Rose Boys: the Series
Author: Christopher Howard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539938682
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
At seventeen, Gabriel Rose ran away from home to be with his girlfriend and support their unborn children. Now, after eighteen years of staying distant, hard circumstances force him to return to the place he left behind. Facing foreclosure, Gabriel does the one thing he never thought he would have to do; turn to his wealthy, judgmental father for help. However, Alexander Roses's financial assistance comes with a price. Just as in his childhood, Gabriel finds himself once again under his father's stronghold as he sacrifices his pride for the well-being of his family.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539938682
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
At seventeen, Gabriel Rose ran away from home to be with his girlfriend and support their unborn children. Now, after eighteen years of staying distant, hard circumstances force him to return to the place he left behind. Facing foreclosure, Gabriel does the one thing he never thought he would have to do; turn to his wealthy, judgmental father for help. However, Alexander Roses's financial assistance comes with a price. Just as in his childhood, Gabriel finds himself once again under his father's stronghold as he sacrifices his pride for the well-being of his family.
Rose Boys the Series
Author: Christopher A Howard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724678133
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Two generations in one household is company, but three generations is a crowd. When Gabriel's father moves in with him and the boys, the two men are quickly reminded that two heads are worse than one. Things become more complicated when Alexander's own domineering father, the Head Rose, pays his extended family a visit. As the three heads come together for a family get-together, it becomes clear that only the love of Gabriel's three sons may change the attitudes of the generations before them, and thus, help the men build toward a stronger legacy for their family. Join Gabriel, Terry, Anthony, and Savion Rose in the third installment of their incredible journey!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724678133
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Two generations in one household is company, but three generations is a crowd. When Gabriel's father moves in with him and the boys, the two men are quickly reminded that two heads are worse than one. Things become more complicated when Alexander's own domineering father, the Head Rose, pays his extended family a visit. As the three heads come together for a family get-together, it becomes clear that only the love of Gabriel's three sons may change the attitudes of the generations before them, and thus, help the men build toward a stronger legacy for their family. Join Gabriel, Terry, Anthony, and Savion Rose in the third installment of their incredible journey!
The Lottery Rose
Author: Irene Hunt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534478477
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534478477
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.
Australian Patriography
Author: Stephen Mansfield
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783083387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Son’s Book of the Father, as Richard Freadman termed it, is a rich field of relational autobiography, offering a unique set of tensions and insights into modes of masculinity, notions of identity and the ethics of representing another’s life in writing one’s own. This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers places an emerging sub-genre within its literary ancestry and its contemporary milieu. Providing compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others, this is the first study of its kind within Australian literature.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783083387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Son’s Book of the Father, as Richard Freadman termed it, is a rich field of relational autobiography, offering a unique set of tensions and insights into modes of masculinity, notions of identity and the ethics of representing another’s life in writing one’s own. This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers places an emerging sub-genre within its literary ancestry and its contemporary milieu. Providing compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others, this is the first study of its kind within Australian literature.
The Brotherhood of the Rose
Author: David Morrell
Publisher: David Morrell
ISBN: 1937760073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
They were orphans, Chris and Saul -- raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them candy. He treated them like sons. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying desperately to have them killed. From the master of high action comes a classic espionage thriller that changed the way spy novels were written, the first to combine the British tradition of authentic espionage tradecraft with the American tradition of non-stop action. He visited them in the orphanage. He brought them candy and taught them to love him as a father. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying desperately to have them killed. Spanning the globe and decades of CIA history, THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE is a thriller of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired. “David Morrell is a master of suspense. He wields it like a stiletto—know just where to stick it and how to turn it. If you’re reading Morrell, you’re sitting on the edge of your seat.” —Michael Connelly “Imagine a suspense thriller as riveting as The Thirty-Nine Steps or Rogue Male, featuring heroes the equal of Adam Hall’s Quiller, and crackling with more action than The Road Warrior, Dirty Harry, and The Seven Samurai. Sounds too good to be true? Then just read David Morrell’s THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE.”—Washington Post Book World “Fast-paced, intelligent, exciting and hard-hitting.” —Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author of The Panther “David Morrell is, to me, the finest thriller writer living today.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Columbus Affair
Publisher: David Morrell
ISBN: 1937760073
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
They were orphans, Chris and Saul -- raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them candy. He treated them like sons. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying desperately to have them killed. From the master of high action comes a classic espionage thriller that changed the way spy novels were written, the first to combine the British tradition of authentic espionage tradecraft with the American tradition of non-stop action. He visited them in the orphanage. He brought them candy and taught them to love him as a father. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying desperately to have them killed. Spanning the globe and decades of CIA history, THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE is a thriller of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired. “David Morrell is a master of suspense. He wields it like a stiletto—know just where to stick it and how to turn it. If you’re reading Morrell, you’re sitting on the edge of your seat.” —Michael Connelly “Imagine a suspense thriller as riveting as The Thirty-Nine Steps or Rogue Male, featuring heroes the equal of Adam Hall’s Quiller, and crackling with more action than The Road Warrior, Dirty Harry, and The Seven Samurai. Sounds too good to be true? Then just read David Morrell’s THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE.”—Washington Post Book World “Fast-paced, intelligent, exciting and hard-hitting.” —Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author of The Panther “David Morrell is, to me, the finest thriller writer living today.” —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Columbus Affair
Secret Boys' Business
Author: Fay Angelo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975011362
Category : Puberty
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Here is a book to help boys understand the changes they go through when reaching puberty. 'Secret Boys' Business' assists boys to understand the changes that occur in their bodies during puberty and beyond. This book aims to:- Present a simple brief account of changes boys experience at puberty.- Celebrate changes to the male body.- Dispel myths, legends and fears by presenting accurate information in a colourful, friendly format.- Promote comfortable discussion.- Enhance confidence and self-esteem of boys.- Provide hints for parents, teachers and carers. This 2nd edition includes details about the physical and emotional changes of puberty. It will give boys a greater understanding and deeper knowledge about puberty and sexuality. Information is presented in a sensitive but open manner. It has simple language and fun illustrations which boys will enjoy.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975011362
Category : Puberty
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Here is a book to help boys understand the changes they go through when reaching puberty. 'Secret Boys' Business' assists boys to understand the changes that occur in their bodies during puberty and beyond. This book aims to:- Present a simple brief account of changes boys experience at puberty.- Celebrate changes to the male body.- Dispel myths, legends and fears by presenting accurate information in a colourful, friendly format.- Promote comfortable discussion.- Enhance confidence and self-esteem of boys.- Provide hints for parents, teachers and carers. This 2nd edition includes details about the physical and emotional changes of puberty. It will give boys a greater understanding and deeper knowledge about puberty and sexuality. Information is presented in a sensitive but open manner. It has simple language and fun illustrations which boys will enjoy.
Misery Boy
Author: Rose Servis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733367226
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fiction. At a prestigious university in Michigan circa 1980, the perplexing poems by Roger Ackroyd have won him a cult following. But who is Roger Ackroyd? Just about the only person on campus not asking that question is Edward Moses, Ackroyd's secret creator. Instead, Edward is flunking his girlfriend's psych class, fighting with his family, and suffering from writer's block. Enter a rival artist pretending to be Roger Ackroyd. In his last week of college, Edward's obsession with exposing the poser threatens to reveal his own true identity. A hilarious campus novel in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis, this debut novel skewers the nature of youth, friendship, and ambition, while making us feel for the lovable but hapless Edward. "Walking a tightrope between the abject and the comic, MISERY BOY offers the hapless misadventures of Edward Moses, a committed secret writer, a committed and not-so-secret drunk, as everything falls to shambles around him. Vibrant and repellent and very funny, MISERY BOY is a razor-sharp debut."--Brian Evenson "'If you were smart you ignored compliments...Somebody complimented your cooking...and you never boiled another potato in your life. With every compliment came a wish for a different, more optimal you.' So writes Rose Servis in MISERY BOY, making me hesitate to compliment her at all. I don't want to change her or influence what she will write next--certain to be as astute and poignant and funny as this. (That is not a compliment, just a fact!)"--Diana Wagman "MISERY BOY is that timeliest of anachronisms; a picaresque novel of the recent past that speaks to our own time with the sort of delirious candor only misfits can muster. Comparisons to Ottessa Moshfegh will be inevitable, but Servis forges a defiantly original path, creating in Eddie Moses a protagonist whose masochistic pursuit of personal artistic purity is both maddening and hilarious--part Henry Fool, part Holden Caulfield, with a dash of Josef K for that enigmatic, existential thrill. Imagine a mumblecore movie written by Thomas Bernhard and you'll be getting close to the finely tuned misanthropic glee of this delightful book. An incredible debut from an emerging writer of immense talent."--Seth Blake "With a prose style that is graceful, innovative and comic, Rose Servis pays homage to, and satirizes Agatha Christie and T.S. Eliot through her brilliant but often befuddled and self-destructive college student protagonist, Edward Moses aka Roger Ackroyd. Servis' Edward is a worthy descendent of J.P. Donleavy's Sebastian Dangerfield from the classic novel The Ginger Man."--Bruce Bauman "Blistering satire from a bold new voice!"--Susan Henderson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733367226
Category : College students
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fiction. At a prestigious university in Michigan circa 1980, the perplexing poems by Roger Ackroyd have won him a cult following. But who is Roger Ackroyd? Just about the only person on campus not asking that question is Edward Moses, Ackroyd's secret creator. Instead, Edward is flunking his girlfriend's psych class, fighting with his family, and suffering from writer's block. Enter a rival artist pretending to be Roger Ackroyd. In his last week of college, Edward's obsession with exposing the poser threatens to reveal his own true identity. A hilarious campus novel in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis, this debut novel skewers the nature of youth, friendship, and ambition, while making us feel for the lovable but hapless Edward. "Walking a tightrope between the abject and the comic, MISERY BOY offers the hapless misadventures of Edward Moses, a committed secret writer, a committed and not-so-secret drunk, as everything falls to shambles around him. Vibrant and repellent and very funny, MISERY BOY is a razor-sharp debut."--Brian Evenson "'If you were smart you ignored compliments...Somebody complimented your cooking...and you never boiled another potato in your life. With every compliment came a wish for a different, more optimal you.' So writes Rose Servis in MISERY BOY, making me hesitate to compliment her at all. I don't want to change her or influence what she will write next--certain to be as astute and poignant and funny as this. (That is not a compliment, just a fact!)"--Diana Wagman "MISERY BOY is that timeliest of anachronisms; a picaresque novel of the recent past that speaks to our own time with the sort of delirious candor only misfits can muster. Comparisons to Ottessa Moshfegh will be inevitable, but Servis forges a defiantly original path, creating in Eddie Moses a protagonist whose masochistic pursuit of personal artistic purity is both maddening and hilarious--part Henry Fool, part Holden Caulfield, with a dash of Josef K for that enigmatic, existential thrill. Imagine a mumblecore movie written by Thomas Bernhard and you'll be getting close to the finely tuned misanthropic glee of this delightful book. An incredible debut from an emerging writer of immense talent."--Seth Blake "With a prose style that is graceful, innovative and comic, Rose Servis pays homage to, and satirizes Agatha Christie and T.S. Eliot through her brilliant but often befuddled and self-destructive college student protagonist, Edward Moses aka Roger Ackroyd. Servis' Edward is a worthy descendent of J.P. Donleavy's Sebastian Dangerfield from the classic novel The Ginger Man."--Bruce Bauman "Blistering satire from a bold new voice!"--Susan Henderson
La La Rose
Author: Satomi Ichikawa
Publisher: Philomel
ISBN: 9780399240294
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
La La Rose, a young girl's stuffed rabbit, gets lost in Luxembourg Gardens.
Publisher: Philomel
ISBN: 9780399240294
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
La La Rose, a young girl's stuffed rabbit, gets lost in Luxembourg Gardens.
The Murrow Boys
Author: Stanley Cloud
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
ISBN: 9780395680841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Smith - invented the craft of radio reporting as they went along, winning the hearts of Americans.
Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers
ISBN: 9780395680841
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Smith - invented the craft of radio reporting as they went along, winning the hearts of Americans.