GimpAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Saturday 1 December 2007
Description
College soccer star Mark Zupan had been out drinking one night and had passed out in the back of his best friends pickup truck when his friend got in the drivers seat, decided to take the truck for a spin, and accidentally crashed it. Thrown into a canal and stuck in frigid water for fourteen hours, Mark was finally rescued and learned soon after that hed broken his neck. Hed most likely be a quadriplegic and spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, doctors told him. At first Marks only goal was to walk again. When that proved impossible, he fell into the depths of anger and despair, retreating from the world and the people closest to him. But love, friendship, and a new sport, quad rugby (a.k.a. "murderball"), helped Mark create a new existence thats truly exceptional.
Gimp, the no-holds-barred memoir of a Paralympic athlete and the star of the Academy Award–nominated documentary Murderball, is an inspiring, defiant, and revealing celebration of spirit and will that confounds readers prejudices by offering proof that a guy in a chair can still do amazing things: have sex with his girlfriend, party with his friends . . . even crowd-surf at Pearl Jam shows.
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