I Was Amelia Earhart
Jane Mendelsohn
#2822 of 8,085 books · #421 in Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction (1997).
A fictitious account of Amelia Earhart's last flight, with flashbacks to her childhood and difficult marriage. Amelia and her raffish, drunken navigator, Noonan, crash-land on a desert island. They fight, touch madness and finally fall in love, before taking off again on only half a tank of petrol.
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- Distributed by Random House
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- 9780099744115
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Awards
- Women's Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(1997)
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