by Carrie Snyder · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420408927
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«La corredora» is a contemporary novel by Carrie Snyder, published by Alfaguara in paperback (344 pages, in Spanish).
Aganetha «Aggie», gold medalist at the 1928 Olympic Games, recalls from the nursing home her childhood on the farm, her love story and her arrival in the city when two strangers take an interest in her career. Her memory spans World War I, the Spanish flu and the twenties and thirties.
Colección Literaturas. Translation by Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino. Originally published in English as Girl Runner (2014), it was nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
For readers of historical and literary fiction, particularly those interested in stories of pioneering women, women's sport and Canadian narrative.
