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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.
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Last year I helped Ekaterina Gordeeva write her poignant memoir, My Sergei, a project that led to my acceptance of a similar assignment with Travis Roy, the Boston University freshman who became paralyzed in his first shift of his first college hockey game. Many of the same elements that made My Sergei a success are at work in Eleven Seconds. This is not a hockey story, which casual readers may suspect from the cover. It is the story of overcoming adversity at a young age, of love in its many forms--love for family, of coach, of girlfriend, of friends--and, finally, of the beautiful and rugged resilience of the human spirit. Travis is going to be okay, but in the last two years he's had a lot on his plate, and he shares this with the reader with a trust and honesty not often found in these kinds of books. I loved working with Travis, just as I loved working with Katia, because they have the clear-eyed frankness of youth, and have been exposed to adversity far beyond their years. They both face it without bitterness, and have grown from it in ways too complex to get into in this short space. In these two young people we can all learn a lot about living with and overcoming obstacles that life places in our paths, of what is important in life and what is trivial, and of the fleeting nature of unencumbered happiness. And about the true nature of love. This is a book I believe readers will remember, and treasure. Enjoy.
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Last year I helped Ekaterina Gordeeva write her poignant memoir, My Sergei, a project that led to my acceptance of a similar assignment with Travis Roy, the Boston University freshman who became paralyzed in his first shift of his first college hockey game. Many of the same elements that made My Sergei a success are at work in Eleven Seconds. This is not a hockey story, which casual readers may suspect from the cover. It is the story of overcoming adversity at a young age, of love in its many forms--love for family, of coach, of girlfriend, of friends--and, finally, of the beautiful and rugged resilience of the human spirit. Travis is going to be okay, but in the last two years he's had a lot on his plate, and he shares this with the reader with a trust and honesty not often found in these kinds of books. I loved working with Travis, just as I loved working with Katia, because they have the clear-eyed frankness of youth, and have been exposed to adversity far beyond their years. They both face it without bitterness, and have grown from it in ways too complex to get into in this short space. In these two young people we can all learn a lot about living with and overcoming obstacles that life places in our paths, of what is important in life and what is trivial, and of the fleeting nature of unencumbered happiness. And about the true nature of love. This is a book I believe readers will remember, and treasure. Enjoy.
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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