Engage - Couverture souple

Kimmage, Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847393144 ISBN 13 : 9781847393142

Editeur : Simon & Schuster UK, 2012

Synopsis

Engage The shocking, controversial, moving story of Matt Hampson, the rugby player who dislocated his neck and was paralysed in a England training session Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

'Engage!' was the last word Matt Hampson heard before dislocating his neck while in rugby training with other young England hopefuls.
On a cold, grey, overcast day in 2005, the cream of young English rugby gathered at a Northampton training ground. Matt Hampson, 'Hambo' to his mates, was one of them. He had dreamt of playing rugby for England ever since he had picked up a rugby ball at school. His skill, conviction and dedication had brought him to the cusp of realising that dream, in an England U21 team that included Olly Morgan, Toby Flood, Ben Foden and James Haskell.
But as the two sets of forwards engaged for a scrum on the training field, the scrum collapsed and Matt, who played tight-head prop, took the full force of two opposing sides. In that moment his life changed forever.
Paul Kimmage went to visit Matt as he recuperated, and wrote a piece for the Sunday Times which won him his third successive SJA sports interviewer of the year award. They struck up a friendship and here, Paul tells Matt's whole story, in all its intimate detail. From the build-up to the dreadful day, to Matt's recuperation, to his struggle to adjust to normal life again, to his family and friends, to other tragic incidents on the rugby field, to the response of the RFU, this is a story of terrible sadness yet unadorned triumph and joy, of anger yet of reconciliation and peace . . . of a boy who became a man.

Quatrième de couverture :

'Engage's honest and unblinking approach to the scale of his disaster makes this book much bleaker (and better) than just an uplifting triumph-over-adversity tale'
Sunday Times
On a cold Tuesday morning in March 2005, the cream of young English rugby gathered in Northampton. Matt Hampson was one of them. He was playing in an England Under-21 team that included James Haskell and Toby Flood.

But during the training session that morning, as the forwards engaged, the scrum collapsed and Matt took the full force of the blow. He woke-up in an intensive care unit, paralysed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator to breathe.
In Engage, award-winning journalist Paul Kimmage combines with Matt to tell this ultimately uplifting true story about one man's strength and determination to overcome the odds.
'This is a big call to make but no amount of head scratching contemplation has prompted recall of a finer rugby book than this . . . the quality and the ingenuity of the narrative takes your breath away' Rugby World
'A genuine must read' Sport Magazine
£7.99
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978-1-84739-314-2
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster UK
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1847393144
• ISBN 13: 9781847393142
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 412