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Mark Zupan was a college soccer star, out drinking one night with friends. Tired from the game and from a few too many beers, he decided to take a nap in the back of his best friend's pickup truck. Still asleep when the vehicle started and 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 discovered the terrible truth—he'd broken his neck and would most likely be a quadriplegic, facing life in a wheelchair, with only limited use of his four limbs.At first Mark's only goal was to walk again, and when that proved impossible, he fell into the depths of despair and retreated from the world and from the people closest to him, increasingly bitter and furious with himself. 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. Now a Paralympic athlete (playing quad rubgy, aka "murderball") who's starred in a movie, Mark explains in his memoir that, in a way, getting hurt was the best thing that could ever have happened to him—and that despite people's prejudices, a guy in a chair still gets to have sex with his girlfriend, party with his friends, and even crowd-surf at Pearl Jam shows. Inspiring, defiant, and revealing, GIMP will appeal not only to fans of Murderball but also to anyone ready to be motivated by a touching, captivating, and heartfelt story about triumphing over adversity.
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Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Athletes with disabilities, Wheelchair rugby, Quadriplegics, Soccer players, Biography, Rugby football players, Personal Memoirs, Biography And Autobiography, Sports And Games, Biography / Autobiography, United States, Biography/Autobiography, Sports - General, Specific Groups - Special Needs, Biography & Autobiography / Sports, Wheelchair sports, Sports, biography, Sportifs handicapés, Biographies, Tétraplégiques, Rugby en fauteuil roulantPeople
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GIMP: The Story Behind the Star of Murderball
December 1, 2007, Harper Paperbacks
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Gimp: when life deals you a crappy hand, you can fold-- or you can play
2006, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
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006112768X 9780061127687
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GIMP: When Life Deals You a Crappy Hand, You Can Fold -or You Can Play
October 17, 2006, HarperCollins
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