My Left Skate : The Extraordinary Story of Eliezer Sherbatov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosner, Anna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athletes with disabilities.

Hockey players.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

My Left Skate

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Great Plains Publications, 2022.

Summary:

WINNER, Red Cedar Nonfiction Award Based on extensive interviews, My Left Skate: The Extraordinary Story of Eliezer Sherbatov is a first-person biography of a Jewish teenager who had it all on the hockey rink: guts, drive, and exceptional talent. When a freak accident leaves him with a permanent disability and no feeling below his left knee, everyone believes Eliezer's career is over - everyone except his mother, a professional power skating coach. She teaches Eliezer to skate using the muscles in his upper leg, and after two and a half years of operations and rehabilitation, he returns to the rink to become one of Quebec's elite junior players. Still undrafted at age nineteen, Eliezer embarks on a professional career in Europe in the hopes of one day returning to the NHL. His travels lead him to France, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, and to Poland, where he lives and plays hockey just a few kilometres from the Auschwitz death camp, haunted by memories of the past. In its stunning conclusion, My Left Skate describes Eliezer's life in Ukraine and his struggle to escape from war after Russia invades the very region in which he plays. "Eliezer Sherbatov scores a hat trick with My Left Skate . This story is wonderfully told: gritty, inspiring, joyful at times and sad at other moments. He deserves to be a hockey hero for all that he has survived." - Marty Klinkenberg, The Globe and Mail

Contents:

Intro

Chapter 1 - Unwanted

Chapter 2 - Israel

Chapter 3 - Finding Home

Chapter 4 - Playing for Israel

Chapter 5 - Broken

Chapter 6 - Healing

Chapter 7 - Shifting

Chapter 8 - Across the World: Kazakhstan

Chapter 9 - The KHL

Chapter 10 - Ghosts

Chapter 11 - An Unexpected War

Chapter 12 - What It's All For.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781773370880

177337088X

OCLC:

1346367955