Back From the Dead Audiobook (Free)

“An elegiac however exuberant brand-new memoir” (The New York Times Reserve Review)-Bill Walton’s NY Instances bestselling memoir about his recovery from debilitating physical injury and how lessons from John Wooden at UCLA (and the music of the Grateful Dead) have motivated his darkest hours.

In Feb 2008, Bill Walton suffered a vertebral collapse so destructive he was struggling to get up. It had been the culmination of an eternity of damage. Although Walton got played fourteen months in the NBA, he in fact about Back In the Dead missed even more video games than he played during those years because of injury. From the time of his spinal collapse until his eventual recovery, he spent the majority of three years smooth on the ground. The discomfort was excruciating, and he thought seriously about killing himself. But he survived, and Back again from the Dead is the tale of his damage and recovery, occur the framework of his amazing athletic profession.

Walton grew up in southern California in the 1950s and was deeply influenced from the political and cultural upheavals from the 1960s. Although Walton discovered strongly using the counterculture, especially in music, the best influence in him outdoors his family was Trainer John Wooden, a thoughtful, precise mentor who seemed immune towards the turmoil of the changing times. The two males would speak every day for forty-three years until Wooden’s loss of life at age ninety-nine.

John Wooden once said that no greatness ever came without sacrifice. With this “often stirring memoir…Walton’s like for life and the people and things in it-including his college coach, John Wooden-is infectious. You can’t end reading, or rooting for the person” (Publishers Weekly). Back from the Dead shares his dramatic story, including his basketball and broadcasting careers, his many setbacks and rebounds, and his best triumph as the toughest of champions. “[Walton] ratings another basket-a deeply personal one.” (Kirkus Evaluations)