An edition of I Was Amelia Earhart: a novel (1996)

I was Amelia Earhart

a novel

1st ed.

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An edition of I Was Amelia Earhart: a novel (1996)

I was Amelia Earhart

a novel

1st ed.

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In this 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, they did whatever 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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A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
Language
English
Pages
145

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Subjects

Fiction, Women air pilots, Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 -- Fiction, Women air pilots -- Fiction, CHR 1997, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy), Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Biographical fiction

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Amelia Earhart (1897-1937)
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I Was Amelia Earhart
October 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding in English
Cover of: I Was Amelia Earhart
I Was Amelia Earhart
June 7, 1999, Random House Value Publishing
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I was Amelia Earhart
1997, Vintage
in English
Cover of: I was Amelia Earhart
I was Amelia Earhart
1996, Thorndike Press
in English
Cover of: I was Amelia Earhart
I was Amelia Earhart: a novel
1996, A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.E482 I2 1996, PS3563.E482 I2 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
145 p. ;
Number of pages
145

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OL967694M
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iwasameliaearhar00mend
ISBN 10
0679450548
LCCN
96004149, 96027420
OCLC/WorldCat
34079054
Library Thing
68948
Goodreads
1405555

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Work ID
OL3238465W

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