The Peerless Four: A Novel

Counterpoint, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. New in dust acket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 212 pp. A novel set in the world of female athletes in the 1928 Olymp[ic Games in Amsterdam, the first games in which women were allowed to compete in track and field. Nicknamed "the Peerless Four", the Canadian track team incuded some of the strongest and most diversely talented women in the athletic world. Narrated by the team's chaperone, the women embark on the goals of every Olympic athletes but tensions rise with heartbreaking disqualifications, supreme sacrifices, new fears and new priorities. Though a work of fiction, a book that is firmly anchored in history that illuminated a little-recognized sports sidelight. New / new. Item #E21698
ISBN: 9781619021778

Price: $14.50

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