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Hard Parts : A Memoir of Courage and Triumph by Oksana Masters (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner
ISBN-101982185503
ISBN-139781982185503
eBay Product ID (ePID)20057287141
Product Key Features
Book TitleHard Parts : a Memoir of Courage and Triumph
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicPeople with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs, Olympics & Paralympics
IllustratorYes
GenreSports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorOksana Masters
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight20.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-465932
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsA 2024 Christopher Award Winner "A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love." -- Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, "Oksana has become a record-shattering champion in four sports by continually testing her limits. Like all the greats, she lives on the edge of fear and uses every setback she's ever had to ask more of herself. A revealing parting of the curtain, THE HARD PARTS is a candid--and often poignant--account of the challenges Oksana overcame along the way to becoming the best ever, and it's more inspiring than words could ever convey." --Mikaela Shiffrin, Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and four-time Overall World Cup Ski Champion, "A book of rare quality...In these pages, not only does Oksana Masters triumph over tremendous odds but her victories are so multiple and her courage crosses so many different fronts that she forces us to rethink the term 'Greatest Ever.' Move aside GOATS and make a place for her." -- Sally Jenkins, sports columnist for the Washington Post , bestselling coauthor of Sum It Up, with Pat Summit, and It's Not About the Bike , with Lance Armstrong
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal796.0456
SynopsisA 2024 Christopher Award Winner "A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love." --Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle An inspirational and powerful memoir from the United States's most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Parts is Oksana Masters's gripping account of overcoming extraordinary Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges to create a life that challenges everyone to push through what is holding them back. Oksana Masters was born in Ukraine--in the shadow of Chernobyl--seemingly with the odds stacked against her. She came into the world with one kidney, a partial stomach, six toes on each foot, webbed fingers, no right bicep, and no thumbs. Her left leg was six inches shorter than her right, and she was missing both tibias. Relinquished to the orphanage system by birth parents daunted by the staggering cost of what would be their child's medical care, Oksana encountered numerous abuses, some horrifying. Salvation came at age seven when Gay Masters, an unmarried American professor who saw a photo of the little girl and became haunted by her eyes, waged a two-year war against stubborn adoption authorities to rescue Oksana from her circumstances. In America, Oksana endured years of operations that included a double leg amputation. Still, how could she hope to fit in when there were so many things making her different? As it turned out, she would do much more than fit in. Determined to prove herself and fueled by a drive to succeed that still smoldered from childhood, Oksana triumphed in not just one sport but four--winning against the world's best in elite rowing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, and road cycling competitions. Now considered one of the world's top athletes, she is the recipient of seventeen Paralympic medals, the most of any US athlete of the Winter Games, Paralympic or Olympic. Oksana's astonishing story of journeying through a series of dark tunnels is "as true a tale of grit as I've ever heard, with a message filled with triumph and beauty--that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, if we are loved" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit ).
LC Classification NumberGV697.M284A3 2023
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