Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage & Triumph

Swift, E. M., Roy, Travis

ISBN 10: 0446521884 / ISBN 13: 9780446521888

Verlag: Warner Books, Inc., 1998

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage & Triumph
• Verlag: Warner Books, Inc.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0446521884
• ISBN-13: 9780446521888
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Presents the inspirational, personal story of Boston University freshman Travis Roy, who suffered a paralyzing injury while playing his first college hockey game, and the strength and courage he exhibited while trying to lead a normal life after the accident.

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Eleven seconds was all it took. Eleven seconds to stop cold a shining career scarcely before it had taken off on the ice. Travis Roy was a promising twenty-year-old hockey star. Then moments into his first collegiate game as a Boston University freshman, a freak accident drove Travis into the boards. A cracked fourth vertebra left him paralyzed from the neck down. That fateful October night in 1995 signaled the death of one dream - but also the eventual rebirth of a special kind of hope. For, though imprisoned for months in a hospital bed, then confined to a wheelchair, Travis gradually found the grit and the will to reclaim for himself a fulfilling and productive life. Eleven seconds is a story about America's love affair with sports and the people who embrace its never-die spirit. Most of all, it is the story of one young man who surrendered to no limits and defied all odds, both before and after the tragedy that ended his game.