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Counterpoint
November 2013
On Sale: November 12, 2013
192 pages
ISBN: 1619021773
EAN: 9781619021778
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Women's Fiction
Running so hard you think you’ll choke on your next breath.
Peripheral vision blurred by the same adrenaline that drowns
out the cheers coming from the full stadium. And of course,
the reporters. The men scribbling furiously on their
notepads so they can publish every stumble, sprain, and
sniffle in these historic games. This was the world of the female athletes in the 1928
Amsterdam Olympics, the first games in which women were
allowed to compete in track and field (and on a trial basis,
at that). Nicknamed “the Peerless Four,” the Canadian track
team included some of the strongest and most diversely
talented women on the scene. Narrated by the team’s
chaperone—a former runner herself—the women embark on their
journey with the same golden goals as every other Olympian,
male or female. But as the Olympic tension begins to rise
with unexpected injuries, heartbreaking disqualifications,
and the pressure of supreme athletic performance, each woman
discovers new fears and new priorities, all while the weight
of women’s future in the Olympics rests on their performance
poise.
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