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Eleven Seconds : A Story of Tragedy, Courage & Triumph
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Overview

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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446521888
  • ISBN-10: 0446521884
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publish Date: January 1998
  • Dimensions: 8.58 x 5.78 x 0.87 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.83 pounds
  • Page Count: 240

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