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Saint-Exupéry:

A Biography
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Da Capo Press, Mar 1, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 525 pages
Stacy Schiff has brought Saint-Exupery wonderfully to life in this definitive biography of the enchanting and complex man. Drawing on dramatic new material, she provides full accounts of his many harrowing plunges to earth, the most serious of which led to the publication of Wind, Sand and Stars, and of his unhappy yet fertile years in New York, where he wrote both Flight to Arras and The Little Prince. She includes entirely fresh information on his career as an Allied war pilot as well as a heartbreaking portrait of him as a Frenchman without a country - and without any politics - in 1940. Deftly, she explores his tortured relationships with his wife and with other women, drawing on many unpublished letters and on her extensive interviews with his friends and his lovers. And she sets him superbly in the context of an era increasingly at odds with his courtly personality and romantic vision.
  

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User Review  - VeganMedusa - Goodreads

Sometimes I wondered whether I wouldn't have been better off with a less detailed biography, but then another gem of his life would turn up and I'd read on happily. It is hard going sometimes, but ... Read full review

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User Review  - Ali - Goodreads

A great study of Saint Exupery's life and time. It adds immeasurably to your knowledge of the man without reducing his poetic posture. He was a poet. If you have read Little Prince you must read this book. Read full review

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Selected pages

Contents

A King of Infinite Space 19271928
3
The Mother Country 19001909
31
Things in Heaven and Earth 19091915
44
Lost Horizons 19151920
56
Silver Linings 19201922
75
Walking on Air 19221926
95
Friends in High Places 1926
119
The Swift Completion of Their Appointed Rounds 19271929
142
Civil Evening Twilight 19371939
279
Where Is France? 19391940
307
Resistance on Fifth Avenue 19401942
336
Anywhere Out of This World 19421943
368
Into Thin Air 19431944
402
Saint Antoine dExupery
434
Acknowledgments
449
Notes
453

Toward the Country Where the Stones Fly 19291931
166
Brightness Falls 19311933
196
Beyond the Call of Duty 19331935
223
Tayara BoumBoum Tayara BournBourn 19351937
256
Selected Bibliography
511
Index
515
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About the author (1997)

Stacy Schiff lives in New York City and in western Canada. She is a 1996 Guggenheim Fellow.

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TitleSaint-Exupéry: A Biography
AuthorStacy Schiff
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherDa Capo Press, 1997
ISBN0306807408, 9780306807404
Length525 pages
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