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I Was Amelia Earhart

Published
Apr 1996
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General Fiction General Fiction
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160

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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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Jul 1997 Vintage (UK) ISBN 0099744112
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Mar 1997 Vintage ISBN 0679776362
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First Edition Apr 1996 Knopf ISBN 0679450548
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Mar 1997 Turtleback Books ISBN 0613136969
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Jun 1996 Random House Audio ISBN 0679458050
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Nov 1996 Thorndike Press ISBN 0786208589
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Nov 1997 Thorndike Press ISBN 0786208597
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