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I Was Amelia Earhart
by Mendelsohn, Jane
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679450548
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450542
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. CH4 - A hard cover 7th printing withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in white paper covered boards with gold lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library marks and stamps blacked out with black magic marker on the front and back endpapers and title page plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A novel in which Amelia Earhart tells what happened after she and her navigator disappeared off the coast of New Guinea in 1937. There are her memories of the past, the flight itself, and life on an island where she ended up. This is the author's first novel. 156p.. 7th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.
Synopsis
Jane Mendelsohn was born in New York City, July 4, 1965. She was graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University in 1987, and attended Yale Law School for one year before beginning a career as a writer/journalist. In 1992, Ms. Mendelsohn spotted an article in The New York Times about the discovery of a piece of a plane believed to have been Amelia Earhart's. The article mentioned that Earhart traveled with a navigator, Fred Noonan, who was with her on her last flight. Intrigued by the dramatic possibilities of two people flying around the world together, crashing, and perhaps surviving, she began researching Earhart's life and disappearance. Shortly after, Ms. Mendelsohn began sketching out a book based on her findings. The first version was a much longer book, told entirely in the third person. "Once I finished it," Ms. Mendelsohn says, "I realized that I had only just figured out the story. Now that I knew what had happened, I had to tell it in Earhart's, and my, voice." The result is I Was Amelia Earhart . Harper's Bazaar hails I Was Amelia Earhart as "an immediately addicting book, as telegraphic as those of Margaret Duras, and as charged with longing....not to be missed." The New York Times writes, "Ms. Mendelsohn has chosen to use the bare-boned outlines of the aviator's life as an armature for a poetic meditation on freedom and love and flight. I Was Amelia Earhart , like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's General in His Labyrinth , invokes the spirit of a mythic personage, while standing on its own as a powerfully imagined work of fiction." I Was Amelia Earhart is Ms. Mendelsohn's first book and novel. Ms. Mendelsohn's reviews have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Village Voice, The Guardian, The London Review of Books , and Yale Review . She has worked as an assistant to the literary editor at The Village Voice and as a tutor at Yale University. At the moment, Ms. Mendelsohn is writing a horror film. She is also sketching out details for her next novel. Ms. Mendelsohn is married and lives in New York with her husband, filmmaker Nick Davis.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW04382
- Title
- I Was Amelia Earhart
- Author
- Mendelsohn, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 7th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679450548
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450542
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Literature Literary Fiction Aviation History Women Aviators
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Author's First Novel; Fiction / Biographical Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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