Fast Girls : : a Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 486, 13 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062937995
0062937995
SUBJECTS
Olympic Games -- 1936 : -- Berlin, Germany) -- Fiction.
Women Olympic athletes -- Fiction.
African American women Olympic athletes -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.