New York, NY: Knopf. Very Good Plus. 1996. ADVANCE READER'S EDITION. Soft Cover. 4 3/8" x 7 1/4 0679450548 PAPERBACK States Advance Reader's Edition on top of front cover and Uncorrected Proof on bottom of back cover. A debut novel in which Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea in 1937. Light wear at edges on light blue wraps. .

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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: Long Beach Books Inc. (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 011418
Title: I Was Amelia Earhart
Author: Jane Mendelsohn
Format/Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Plus
Edition: ADVANCE READER'S EDITION
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0679450548
ISBN 13: 9780679450542
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: Advance, Reader, s, Edition/Novel/Amelia, Earhart

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