Girl runner : a novel
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Girl runner : a novel
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The work Girl runner : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- Girl runner : a novel
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Carrie Snyder
- Subject
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- Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction
- Memory -- Fiction
- Nineteen thirties -- Fiction
- Nineteen twenties -- Fiction
- Nursing homes -- Fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- Canadian fiction
- Ontario -- Fiction
- Women athletes -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
- Olympic Games, 1928, Amsterdam, Netherlands -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Aganetha Smart, a former Olympic athlete was famous in the 1920s, but now, at age 104, lives in a nursing home, alone and forgotten by history. When her quiet life is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of two young strangers, Aganetha begins to reflect on her childhood in rural Ontario and her struggles to make an independent life for herself in the city. The devastation of WWI and the Spanish flu epidemic, the optimism of the 1920s and the sacrifices of the 1930s play out in Aganetha<U+2019>s mind, as she wrestles with the confusion and displacement of the present
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- Dewey number
- C813/.6
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- genealogical tables
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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