A VISION OF COURAGE
by James Nathan Post
with George Mendoza
This heartwarming, exciting, and motivational story about a young athlete confronting the horror of blindness, the hazards of celebrity, and the spiritual power of an Apache shaman was written with world-class runner George Mendoza, who faced his own loss of vision and went on to win medals in the International Games For The Handicapped in 1980 and 1984. First written as a screenplay, it is filled with action, drama, and romance, from finding love, inspiration, and betrayal in the high mountains of the New Mexico, to the challenge of celebrity and world competition.
Bobby Lucero is the fastest runner in the history of his high school, but his Olympic ambitions are crushed when a rare disease destroys his vision. Bitterly depressed, he retreats in defeat into himself, and takes a job working as a VISTA in the community center on an Indian reservation in the mountains of New Mexico. There an angry young half-Indian girl and a reclusive old Apache shaman help him to confront the world again, and to reclaim his ambition to be a champion. When the leader of America?s Olympic track team is denied his chance to win by the boycott of the 1980 Olympics, he offers Bobby an opportunity to fulfill his dream, and to meet the ultimate challenge of his life.
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with George Mendoza
Bobby Lucero is the fastest runner in the history of his high school, but his Olympic ambitions are crushed when a rare disease destroys his vision. Bitterly depressed, he retreats in defeat into himself, and takes a job working as a VISTA in the community center on an Indian reservation in the mountains of New Mexico. There an angry young half-Indian girl and a reclusive old Apache shaman help him to confront the world again, and to reclaim his ambition to be a champion. When the leader of America?s Olympic track team is denied his chance to win by the boycott of the 1980 Olympics, he offers Bobby an opportunity to fulfill his dream, and to meet the ultimate challenge of his life.