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Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage & Triumph Hardcover - 1997
by Travis Roy; E. M. Swift
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- very good
- Hardcover
In this heartfelt testament to the power of love and the strength of the human spirit, Travis Roy, who suffered a devastating injury eleven seconds into his first college hockey game, reveals how he has managed to cope after the accident and, with the help of family and friends, overcome tremendous barriers to begin a new life. of photos.
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- Title Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage & Triumph
- Author Travis Roy; E. M. Swift
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Warner Books, New York
- Date 1997-12-31
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 230809020
- ISBN 9780446521888 / 0446521884
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.58 x 5.78 x 0.87 in (21.79 x 14.68 x 2.21 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Hockey players - United States - Biography, Hockey players - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97025213
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
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.
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- Booklist, 01/01/1998, Page 764
- Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/1997, Page 1694
- Publishers Weekly, 11/03/1997, Page 72
