I Was Amelia Earhart
I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn is a reprint edition published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on March 4, 1997. This novel presents a fictional account of Amelia Earhart’s experiences following her disappearance with navigator Fred Noonan in 1937. Through Earhart’s perspective, readers explore her passion for flying, her reflections on her past, and the complexities of her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who played a significant role in her rise to fame.
In this imaginative narrative, Mendelsohn delves into themes of ambition and the pursuit of freedom, as Earhart recounts her adventurous flights and the challenges she faced. The story also introduces an island that symbolizes hope and possibility, alongside the enduring connection between Earhart and Noonan. With a page count of 160, this edition invites readers to engage with a blend of historical and literary elements, offering a unique take on the life of one of aviation’s most iconic figures.
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In 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 . . .
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