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Published: 09.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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  • Essays 'The Story "Rose Boys"', 1.
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Rose boys are the agonising story of Robert Roses translation from a quintessentially Australian sporting life of brilliance, promise and hedonistic physicality to the confined and crippled world of quadriplegic. This metamorphosis occurs as so many of them do in a few tangled, metallic-rushing moments. More broadly 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 catastrophe. Peter Rose goes in depth to prove to us that "Rose Boys" deals with a family that is both ordinary and remarkable this also can be shown by the events that occur throughout this biography.…

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