{"product_id":"a-life-impossible-9780593470589","title":"A Life Impossible","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGleason is a symbol of resilience, hope and optimism.??\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times? \u003c\/i\u003eSteve Gleason has changed the world. ?Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner ? An extraordinary book...\u003ci\u003eA Life Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e will change the way people cope, think, and live. ?Mike Lupica, co-author with James Patterson of\u003ci\u003e 12 Months to Live\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2011, three years after leaving the NFL, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS,a terminal disease that takes away the ability to move, talk, and breathe. Doctors gave him three years to live. He wasthirty-three years old. As Steve says, he is now ten years past his expiration date.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis memoir is the chronicle of a remarkable life, one filled with optimism and joy, despite the trauma and pain and despair he has experienced. Writing using eye-tracking technology, Gleason covers his pre-ALS life through the highs and lows of his NFL career with the New Orleans Saints, where he made one of the most memorable plays in Saints history, leading to a victory in the first post-Katrina home game,uplifting the city, making him a hero, and reflected in a nine-foot bronze statue outside the Superdome. Then came his heartbreaking diagnosis. Gleason lost all muscle function,he now uses Stephen Hawking-like technology to communicate, and breathes with the help of a ventilator. This book captures Gleason and his wife Michel?s unmatched resilience as they reinvent their lives, refuse to succumb to despair, and face his disease realistically and existentially.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis unsparing portrait argues that a person''s true strength does not reside solely in one?s body but also in the ability to faceunfathomable adversityand still be able to love and treasure life.","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037224141143,"sku":"9780593470589","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780593470589.jpg?v=1750934875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-life-impossible-9780593470589","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}