{"product_id":"i-was-amelia-earhart-paperback","title":"I Was Amelia Earhart - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Mendelsohn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is her love affair with flying (\"The sky is flesh\") . . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere 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\"). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd there is, miraculously, an island (\"We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke\"). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd, most important, there is Noonan . . .\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003eThere is her love affair with flying (\"The sky is flesh\") . . . . \u003cbr\u003eThere 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. \u003cbr\u003eThere 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\"). \u003cbr\u003eAnd there is, miraculously, an island (\"We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke\"). \u003cbr\u003eAnd, most important, there is Noonan . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1992, Ms. Mendelsohn spotted an article in \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eI Was Amelia Earhart\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\" \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cb\u003eI Was Amelia Earhart\u003c\/b\u003e, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's \u003cb\u003eGeneral in His Labyrinth\u003c\/b\u003e, invokes the spirit of a mythic personage, while standing on its own as a powerfully imagined work of fiction.\" \u003cb\u003eI Was Amelia Earhart\u003c\/b\u003e is Ms. Mendelsohn's first book and novel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMs. Mendelsohn's reviews have appeared in \u003cb\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer, The Village Voice, The Guardian, The London Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eYale Review\u003c\/b\u003e. She has worked as an assistant to the literary editor at \u003cb\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMs. Mendelsohn is married and lives in New York with her husband, filmmaker Nick Davis.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.1 x 5.29 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (1997)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e I Was Amelia Earhart\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Middle Grades, 4-8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6.4\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52557304398131,"sku":"9780679776369","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/CqkgmB6Xkp9780679776369.webp?v=1761180810","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/i-was-amelia-earhart-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}