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Saint-Exupéry : a biography / Stacy Schiff

By:

Schiff, Stacy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Da Capo Press , 1996.Edition: 1st Da Capo edDescription: xi, 525 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:

9780306807404

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DDC classification:

92 SAI

LOC classification:

PQ2637.A274 Z829 1996

Summary: Born in 1900 into one of France's oldest families, impoverished aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry became a pioneer aviator, braving the Pyrenees, Patagonia and the Sahara, as well as serving as a mail pilot in the 1920s and '30s, and then turning his adventures into lyrical novels. The Little Prince, his children's fable for all ages, secured his fame. This captivating biography deftly separates the man from the myth, revealing an awkward, petulant idealist, an elitist who advocated oligarchy, a pilot known for his mishaps and absentmindedness, and an unhappily married adventurer whose abusive wife eventually reached an uneasy accommodation with his mistress. Fleeing German-occupied France for New York City in 1940, Saint-Exupéry felt he was shirking his duty as a Frenchman; he attained the noble death he sought in 1944, missing in action on a reconnaissance flight over southern France.

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Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-514) and index.

Born in 1900 into one of France's oldest families, impoverished aristocrat Antoine de Saint-Exupéry became a pioneer aviator, braving the Pyrenees, Patagonia and the Sahara, as well as serving as a mail pilot in the 1920s and '30s, and then turning his adventures into lyrical novels. The Little Prince, his children's fable for all ages, secured his fame. This captivating biography deftly separates the man from the myth, revealing an awkward, petulant idealist, an elitist who advocated oligarchy, a pilot known for his mishaps and absentmindedness, and an unhappily married adventurer whose abusive wife eventually reached an uneasy accommodation with his mistress. Fleeing German-occupied France for New York City in 1940, Saint-Exupéry felt he was shirking his duty as a Frenchman; he attained the noble death he sought in 1944, missing in action on a reconnaissance flight over southern France.

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