Breaking Away

Patrick OSullivan was a kid with skills with natural gifts that catapulted him into the spotlight and made NHL scouts rave. OSullivan seemed destined to become one of the worlds next great hockey players. But then it all went horribly wrong the national bestseller Breaking Away Patrick OSullivan gives readers a disturbing account of ten years of ever-escalating physical abuse and emotional cruelty at the hands of his father. When Patrick proved more skilled than other eight-year-olds John OSullivan decided to dedicate his life to turning his son into the player he had always dreamed of becoming. Shouting at the top of his lungs John OSullivan was the typical over-involved parent. Many teammates parents and coaches thought it ended there. Few had any idea of the dysfunction and violence at the OSullivans home.Breaking Away is a story about abuse but it is also a story about triumph as OSullivan revisits the ghosts of his past.