I Was Amelia Earhart
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I Was Amelia Earhart
Narrated by:
Blair Brown
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Narrated by:
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Blair Brown
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Jane Mendelsohn
About this listen
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 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.
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 . . .
I would have preferred less love and more action.
At times a bit repetitive.
But over all a beautiful thought to what might have happened to the beautiful Emelia Earhart after here Electra left the sky never to be seen again.
Poetic „Read“
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