My Life Story

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 359 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Ben Cousins has one of the most extraordinary stories in modern Australian sport. Hes perhaps the most gifted player of his generation - a former captain of the West Coast eagles, a Brownlow medallist, a premiership winner, voted the AFLs Most Valuable Player - but hes best known for what hes done off the footy field rather than on it. Ben is a self-confessed drug addict, whose drug binges would last for days and involve incredible amounts of cocaine, crack and ice. But whats really remarkable about Bens story is that the two sides of his life - the captaincy, the premierships, the Brownlow, the accolades, and the frenzy and squalor of the drug scene were actually done at the same time, side by side.Bens book is an account of this double life, and what its cost him, his family and his friends. Its also an account of his battles to beat his addiction, and his battle to keep playing football - which was his lifeline - against the entrenched opposition of a large number of people in the game. And as if the story is not extraordinary enough, what distinguishes it above all else is the approach Bens taken to writing it. It is a work of searing emotional and factual honesty. Ben hides nothing, and the result is one of the most remarkable sporting memoirs ever published in Australia.

ISBN: 9781405040006