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

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 innovati...

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Superior document:Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters,
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Place / Publishing House:Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2010.
©2010
Year of Publication:2009
2010
Language:English
Series:Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages) :; illustrations
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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.
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Frontmatter
Petri, Zarah.
Hungarians Canada Biography.
Immigrants Canada Biography.
memoir
immigration
Hungary
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