Book 43 - "I Was Amelia Earhart" by Jane Mendelsohn
Thursday, May 4th, 2006 19:06![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakePlanes used to be vehicles for dreaming. They were strong and curvaceous, manly and womanly at the same time, simple, almost old-fashioned mechanical toys and vessels carrying the future. As soon as you saw a plane, you started dreaming. It was a thrill just to catch a glimpse of one.
A short book whose story is an imaginative recreation of Amelia Earhart's last flight, and its aftermath. The blurb on the back cover mentions its similarity to a J.G. Ballard story and it did remind me quite a lot of The Unlimited Dream Company. The tale of a lost pilot, the dreamlike atmosphere of events after the crash, the uncertainty about whether events are really happening or just the fantasy of a dying pilot, are all reminiscent of Ballard's writings.
A short book whose story is an imaginative recreation of Amelia Earhart's last flight, and its aftermath. The blurb on the back cover mentions its similarity to a J.G. Ballard story and it did remind me quite a lot of The Unlimited Dream Company. The tale of a lost pilot, the dreamlike atmosphere of events after the crash, the uncertainty about whether events are really happening or just the fantasy of a dying pilot, are all reminiscent of Ballard's writings.
