Raelene: Sometimes Beaten, Never Conquered - The Raylene Boyle Story

Raylene Boyle; Garry Linnell

ISBN 10: 0732275296 / ISBN 13: 9780732275297

Published by Harper Collins Publishers, Sydney. NSW. AUST, 2003

About this Item

x, 325pp., b/w illustrations, index. Signed on front endpaper - 'Best Wishes, Raelene Boyle '03'. Age toned text block. Browned edges. Very light edge wear and creasing to Dustjacket spine top.(BH) 6/25.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1533361956766

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Raelene: Sometimes Beaten, Never Conquered - The Raylene Boyle Story
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, Sydney. NSW. AUST
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0732275296
• ISBN 13: 9780732275297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sport
  • Australian Biography

About this title

Synopsis

"Let me show you my scars. To know them is to know me." So begins the candid memoir of Raelene Boyle, one of Australia's most loved national figures. The former Olympic sprinter, whose refusal to use drugs cost her several gold medals, details her battles with breast and ovarian cancer, as well as her ongoing fight to overcome severe depression. With the same capacity for honesty and bluntness that caused her endless disputes with officialdom, Raelene reveals her disillusionment with the Olympic movement and tells how a shy working-class girl managed to turn her insecurities and a series of devastating setbacks into a tale of triumph.

Synopsis

"Let me show you my scars. To know them is to know me." So begins the candid memoir of Raelene Boyle, one of Australia's most loved national figures. The former Olympic sprinter, whose refusal to use drugs cost her several gold medals, details her battles with breast and ovarian cancer, as well as her ongoing fight to overcome severe depression.