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Fast girls : a novel of the 1936 women's Olympic team

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2020

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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

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