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Girl Runner

by Carrie Snyder

First published 2014

Cover of Girl Runner

Reception

  1. 2014
    Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize
    Shortlist

About the book

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“As a young runner, Aganetha Smart defied everyone’s expectations to win a gold medal for Canada in the 1928 Olympics. It was a revolutionary victory, because this was the first Games in which women could compete in track events—and they did so despite opposition.

Description from Open Library

Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize 2014 shortlist

Catalogue record

Anansi · 368 pages

Publisher
Anansi
Pages
368
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Publisher
Anansi
Pages
368
Author
Snyder, Carrie
Statement
Girl Runner / Carrie Snyder.
Records
Open Library

Subjects

  • Women Olympic athletes
  • Women runners
  • Older women
  • Women in sport
  • Social change