Travis Roy, a former collegiate hockey player, wrote his tragic story in a book called Eleven Seconds. Well, he didn't physically write it down himself; he dictated the story to E.M. Swift, who organized Travis' words into the book. This is because Travis Roy is a quadriplegic. After a mere eleven seconds of Travis' first college hockey game, his dreams of the NHL were shattered forever. Travis Roy's autobiography, Eleven Seconds, has three parts. …showed first 75 words of 580 total…

…showed last 75 words of 580 total…Travis can do on his own. I think the story is also a great motivator to live every day to the fullest. People who like hockey would probably be interested in Travis' story as well. Travis Roy comes off as a warm and loving person, despite his terrible injury, so his book Eleven Seconds should be easy for most anyone to read. The only hard part might be keeping one's tears off of the pages.