Breaking Back How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life

Name: Breaking Back How I Lost Everything and Won Back My Life
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ISBN: 9780061560606

ISBN-10: 006156060X

ISBN-13: 9780061560606

Edition: 2008

Authors: Andrew Friedman, James Blake

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James Blake's life was getting better every day. A rising tennis star and People magazine's Sexiest Male Athlete of 2002, he was leading a charmed life and loving every minute of it. But all that ended in May 2004, when Blake fractured his neck in an on-court freak accident. As he recovered, his father-who had been the inspiration for his tennis career-lost his battle with stomach cancer. Shortly after his father's death, Blake was dealt a third blow when he contracted zoster, a rare virus that paralyzed half of his face and threatened to end his already jeopardized career. In Breaking Back, Blake provides a remarkable account of how he came back from this terrible heartbreak and self-doubt…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Writer Andrew Friedman has authored or coauthored more than twenty books. He lives with his wife and children in New York City.



Author's note


Prologue



The Statement



It Could Be Worse; It Could Be Raining



Requiem for a Superman



Five Minutes of Hitting, Twenty-Five Minutes of Talking



Plan B



If You Can Win One Set, You Can Win Two



Fire It Up One Time ... Bam!



Getting Better


Epilogue


Glossary


Acknowledgments