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<p><P>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.<br><br>There is her love affair with flying (&quot;The sky is flesh&quot;) . . . .<br><br>There are her memories of the past&#58; her childhood desire to become a heroine (&quot;Heroines did what they wanted&quot;) . . . 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.<br><br>There is the flight itself &#151; day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day (&quot;Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it&quot;).<br><br>And there is, miraculously, an island (&quot;We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke&quot;).<br><br>And, most important, there is Noonan . . .</p><h3>Katherine Whittamore</h3><p><P>"Hubris and liquor" made Amelia Earhart crash, according to Jane Mendelsohn, her literary channeler in <i>I Was Amelia Earhart</i>. "The more he (her navigator, Fred Noona

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Author

Mendelsohn, Jane, 1965-

Publisher

New York: A.A. Knopf: Distributed by Random House

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679450542

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (1,673 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14