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I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn (1997, Trade Paperback)

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I Was Amelia Earhart : A Novel, Paperback by Mendelsohn, Jane, ISBN 0679776362, ISBN-13 9780679776369, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In a novel about a real-life mystery, Amelia Earhart describes what happened after she and her navigator disappeared off the coast of New Guinea in 1937 and discusses her love of flying, memories of her past, and her life with . Putnam

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679776362

ISBN-139780679776369

eBay Product ID (ePID)929418

Product Key Features

Book TitleI Was Amelia Earhart

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, Biographical, Historical

Publication Year1997

GenreFiction

AuthorJane Mendelsohn

Book SeriesVintage Contemporaries Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight5.9 Oz

Item Length7.9 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-004149

Dewey Edition20

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

SynopsisIn this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . . There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas. There is the flight itself -- day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it"). And there is, miraculously, an island ("We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke"). And, most important, there is Noonan . . .