Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead
(eBook)

Book Cover
Average Rating
Published
Skyhorse, 2009.
ISBN
9781628731439
Lexile measure
900L
Status
Available Online

Description

Loading Description...

Also in this Series

Checking series information...

More Like This

Loading more titles like this title...

More Details

Format
eBook
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.3, 11 Points
Lexile measure
900

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Brian Boyle., & Brian Boyle|AUTHOR. (2009). Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead . Skyhorse.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Brian Boyle and Brian Boyle|AUTHOR. 2009. Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back From the Dead. Skyhorse.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Brian Boyle and Brian Boyle|AUTHOR. Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back From the Dead Skyhorse, 2009.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Brian Boyle, and Brian Boyle|AUTHOR. Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back From the Dead Skyhorse, 2009.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

Staff View

Go To Grouped Work

Grouping Information

Grouped Work IDc759e764-c0f5-6e69-99c8-46cbd578440e-eng
Full titleiron heart the true story of how i came back from the dead
Authorboyle brian
Grouping Categorybook
Last Update2024-03-27 21:55:45PM
Last Indexed2024-03-28 03:22:42AM

Book Cover Information

Image Sourcesyndetics
First LoadedJun 8, 2022
Last UsedMar 25, 2024

Hoopla Extract Information

stdClass Object
(
    [year] => 2009
    [artist] => Brian Boyle
    [fiction] => 
    [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/ssd_9781628731439_270.jpeg
    [titleId] => 12351969
    [isbn] => 9781628731439
    [abridged] => 
    [language] => ENGLISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => Iron Heart
    [demo] => 
    [segments] => Array
        (
        )

    [pages] => 256
    [children] => 
    [artists] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Brian Boyle
                    [artistFormal] => Boyle, Brian
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

        )

    [genres] => Array
        (
            [0] => Biography & Autobiography
            [1] => Personal Memoirs
        )

    [price] => 1.29
    [id] => 12351969
    [edited] => 
    [kind] => EBOOK
    [active] => 1
    [upc] => 
    [synopsis] => It was a horrific car crash. On the way home from swim practice, eighteen-year old Brian Boyle's future changed in an instant when a dump truck plowed into his Camaro. He was airlifted to a shock-trauma hospital. He had lost sixty percent of his blood, his heart had moved across his chest, and his organs and pelvis were pulverized. He was placed in a medically-induced coma. When Brian finally emerged from the coma two months later, he had no memory of the accident. He could see and hear, but not move or talk. Unable to communicate to his doctors, nurses, or frantic parents, he heard words like "vegetable" and "nursing home." If he lived, doctors predicted he might not be able to walk again, and certainly not swim. Then, miraculously, Brian clawed his way back to the living. First blinking his eyelids, then squeezing a hand, then smiling, he gradually emerged from his locked-in state. The former swimmer and bodybuilder had lost one hundred pounds.

Iron Heart is the first-person account of his ordeal and his miraculous comeback. With enormous fortitude he learned to walk, then run, and eventually, to swim. With his dream of competing in the Ironman Triathlon spurring him on, Brian defied all odds, and three-and-a-half years after his accident, crossed the finish line in Kona, Hawaii. Brian's inspiring journey from coma to Kona is brought to life in this memoir.
    [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12351969
    [pa] => 
    [subtitle] => The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead
    [publisher] => Skyhorse
    [purchaseModel] => INSTANT
)