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6 quotes from Jane Mendelsohn: 'The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away.', 'There is no difference between being rescued and being captured.', and 'He wanted his daughter's happiness more than anything but he saw that she was not destined ...
- Jane Mendelsohn (Author of I Was Amelia Earhart) - Goodreads
She is the author of three novels: the best-selling I Was...
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Jane Mendelsohn — ‘The spring came suddenly; the rains...
- Jane Mendelsohn (Author of I Was Amelia Earhart) - Goodreads
She is the author of three novels: the best-selling I Was Amelia Earhart, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and Innocence, and American Music. Published to wide acclaim by Knopf in 2010, American Music is now out in paperback from Vintage.
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Jane Mendelsohn — ‘The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blo...
Jane Simone Mendelsohn (born 1965) is an American writer. Her novels are known for their mythic themes, poetic imagery, and allegorical content, as well as themes of female and personal empowerment. Mendelsohn's novel I Was Amelia Earhart was an international bestseller in 1996 and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.
In 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. There is her love affair with flying (“The sky is flesh”) . . . .
“Elegant and sensuously beautiful…. A psychologically rich portrait of a highly unusual woman.” — Booklist. “Vividly imagined and complex…a soaring prose meditation.” — Chicago Tribune. “Mendelsohn’s rhapsodic language and shimmering, dream-like imagery will carry readers along on her voyage into the many mysteries this work contains….
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Jane Mendelsohn is an American author. Her first novel was the critically acclaimed international bestseller I Was Amelia Earhart. Born and raised in New York City, she attended the Horace Mann School and Yale, where she was a Connecticut Student Poet and graduated summa cum laude.
