Gimp
Subtitle: when life deals you a crappy hand, you can fold-- or you can play
By: Mark Zupan and Tim Swanson
Contributors: Swanson, Tim
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780061127687
Subjects: Athletes with disabilities; Wheelchair rugby; Quadriplegics; Soccer players; Biography
Description: Mark Zupan was a college soccer star, out drinking one night with friends. He decided to take a nap in the back of his friend's pickup truck. Still asleep when the vehicle drove away, he was suddenly jolted awake as the truck crashed. Mark was thrown into a canal and was stuck in frigid water, barely clinging to a tree branch, for fourteen hours. When he was finally rescued, Mark learned that he'd broken his neck and would be a quadriplegic, facing life in a wheelchair. At first Mark's only goal was to walk again, and when that proved impossible, he fell into despair and retreated from the world. But through love, friendship, and an introduction to a new sport, Mark realized that he could live a more-than-full life in a chair and has gone on to create an existence that's truly exceptional.--From publisher description.