Displaying 1 of 1 2020 Title: Fast girls : a novel of the 1936 women's Olympic team Author: Hooper, Elise, author. Edition: First edition. Format: Book Publisher, Date: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] ©2020 Description: 486 pages, 13 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Summary: This novel explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women's Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany. It is a chronicle of three athletes who defied society's expectations of what women could achieve. Subjects: Robinson, Betty, 1911-1999 -- Fiction. Stephens, Helen, 1918-1994 -- Fiction. Fraser, Louise Stokes -- Fiction. Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany) -- Fiction. Women Olympic athletes -- Fiction. African American women Olympic athletes -- Fiction. Race relations -- Fiction. Sexism -- Fiction. Genre: Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Sports fiction. Novels. ISBN 9780062937995 Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Find It Map It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
