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Record Nr.

UNISA996212659503316

Autore

Walters John Leigh <1933->

Titolo

A very capable life : the autobiography of Zarah Petri / / John Leigh Walters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athabasca University Press, 2009

Edmonton, Alberta : , : AU Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-81967-4

9786612819674

1-897425-42-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters, , 1921-6661

Disciplina

971.004945110092

Soggetti

Hungarians - Canada

Immigrants - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

Written in his mother's unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman.Zarah Petri was a child when her family left Hungary to establish a new life in Canada in the 1920s. With courage and innovation, Zarah and her family survived the Depression?even if it meant breaking the law to do so. In celebrating Zarah Petri, A Very Capable Life pays homage to all "ordinary" women of the early twentieth century who challenged society's conventions for the sake of survival.