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Saint-Exupery: A Biography

Autor Stacy Schiff
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2006
From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story The Little Prince, still the most translated book in the French language.

An impoverished aristocrat from one of France’s oldest families, Saint-Exupéry moved at age twenty-seven to the western Sahara Desert, to live alone in a plank shack and manage the way station for the Aéropostale, the French mail service. His careers as a novelist and an aviator were born here, and his life once he returned to Europe was defined—with brilliant and catastrophic results—by the sense of isolated fascination and curiosity he developed in the desert.

In this definitive biography, Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff reveals an intrepid and unconventional life that rivals the best adventure stories.

“A remarkable biography; indeed, it is impossible to imagine the job better done. It is balanced, perceptive, thoroughly researched, and exceptionally well-written.” —The New Yorker

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780805079135
ISBN-10: 0805079130
Pagini: 529
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Owl Books (NY)

Notă biografică

Stacy Schiff is the author of A Great Improvisation and Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography. She has received
fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Schiff lives in New York City.


Descriere

Saint-Exupery was one of the most remarkable figures in 20th-century history--a pioneer aviator, a swashbuckling international hero, and author of many international bestsellers, including the enduring classic The Little Prince. Based on extensive interviews and previously unpublished material, this boo k brings Saint-Exupery to life--on the 50th anniversary of his death. Photo insert.