Gimp

<p>College soccer star Mark Zupan had been out drinking one night and had passed out in the back of his best friend's pickup truck when his friend got in the driver's 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 he'd broken his neck. He'd most likely be a quadriplegic and spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair doctors told him. At first Mark's 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 that's truly exceptional.</p><p><em>Gimp</em> the no-holds-barred memoir of a Paralympic athlete and the star of the Academy Award-nominated documentary <em>Murderball</em> 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. </p>