The Tale of the Rose
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The Tale of the Rose by Consuelo De Saint-Exupery
The Passion that inspired THE LITLE PRINCE Written.just months after Antoine de Saint-Exupery died while flying a mission for the Resistance, this memoir by his wife has become an international best seller. LIBRARY JOURNAL In the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupery left his wife, Consuelo, to return to the war in Europe. Soon after, he disappeared while flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France. Neither his plane nor his body was ever found. THE TALE OF THE ROSE is Consuelo's account of their extraordinary marriage, a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited wife who gave him the strength to fulfil his dreams. Their love affair and marriage took them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender poetic love. Several times in the course of their marriage they would go their separate ways, but always they would return. THE LITLE PRINCE was Antoine's greatest gift to the woman he never stopped loving, the only child to emerge from their union. THE TALE OF THE ROSE is Consuelo's reply - the love letter she never could write to her husband - a fable of its own, just as magical, poetic, and tragic as THE LITLE PRINCE.
Consuelo de Saint-Exupery wrote The Tale of the Rose in 1945, with the pain of loss still fresh in her heart. The manuscript was sealed away in a locked trunk on her estate, and found by chance, fifteen years after her death, when an academic was digging around for fresh material for a new biography of Saint-Exupery. He died in 1979 and left her estate, and the proceeds from her share of The Little Prince to her gardener.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812967173 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812967178 |
| Title | The Tale of the Rose |
| Author | Consuelo De Saint-Exupery |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2003-01-14 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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