Stronger

Resource Information

The work Stronger represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Stronger

Statement of responsibility

Jeff Bauman, with Bret Witter

Creator

• Bauman, Jeff

Contributor

• Witter, Bret

Subject

• Amputees -- Rehabilitation
• Amputees -- Rehabilitation -- Massachusetts | Boston
• Bauman, Jeff
• Bauman, Jeff
• Biography
• Boston Marathon Bombing (Boston, Massachusetts : 2013)
• Boston Marathon Bombing, Boston, Mass., 2013
• Massachusetts -- Boston
• Victims of terrorism
• Victims of terrorism -- Massachusetts | Boston -- Biography
• 2013

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

A survivor of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, who helped to set off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history, discusses his experiences that day and his ongoing mission to walk again after losing both legs. When he woke up on Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote down seven words: "Saw the guy. Looked right at me, " setting off one of the biggest manhunts in the country's history. Just thirty hours before, he had been at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon cheering on his girlfriend, Erin, when the first bomb went off at his feet. As he was rushed to the hospital, he realized he was severely injured and that he might die, but he didn't know that a photograph of him in a wheelchair was circulating throughout the world, making him the human face of the Boston Marathon bombing victims, or that what he had seen would give the Boston police their most important breakthrough. Up until the marathon, Jeff had been a normal 27-year-old guy, looking forward to moving in with Erin and starting the next phase of their lives together. But when his life was turned upside down in ways he could never have fathomed, he did not give up. Instead he faced his new circumstances with grace, humor, and a sense of purpose: he was determined, no matter what, to walk again. In this book he describes the chaos and terror of the bombing itself and the ongoing FBI investigation in which he was a key witness. He takes us inside his grueling rehabilitation, and discusses his attempt to reconcile the world's admiration with his own guilt and frustration. And he tells of the courage of his fellow survivors. Brave, compassionate, and emotionally compelling, this story is not just his, but ours as well. It proves that the terrorists accomplished nothing with their act of cowardice and shows the entire world what Boston Strong really means

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 362.88
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV6432.8

LC item number

.B38 2014

Literary form

non fiction