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

Roy, Travis, with E. M. Swift

ISBN 10: 0446521884 / ISBN 13: 9780446521888

Published by Warner Books, New York, 1998

About this Item

Seventh printing. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page. Roy was a highly touted freshman forward on the Boston University ice hockey team in 1995 when his career as a hockey player ended eleven seconds into his first shift, in a collision with the boards that left him almost totally paralyzed from the neck down. He went on to get his degree and to found the Travis Roy Foundation before succumbing to complications of surgery at age 45 in 2020. The book is unmarked; slight spine slant; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $20.00); Brodart protected.

Seller Inventory # 016181

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage, & Triumph
• Publisher: Warner Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446521884
• ISBN 13: 9780446521888
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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.

From the Back 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.