false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165765583m/8841.jpg 8841 9 Reading his wife's lyrical yet frank memoir of their turbulent marriage, it's easy to see why Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) depicted her as the prince's beloved, difficult Rose in his most famous book, <I>The Little Prince</I>. The French writer's feelings for his Salvadoran wife were passionate from the moment they met in Buenos Aires. On that very first day in 1930, he cajoled her aboard his airplane, even though she was afraid of flying, and extorted a kiss by cutting the engine and threatening to drown them both in the waters below. He proposed marriage just a few days later, and the revolution roiling Argentina was hardly more unsettling for Consuelo than the emotions aroused by her swashbuckling aviator-author. "For you I am nothing but a dream," she explains. "But I want you to know I am not an object or a doll; I don't change faces on command." Blending the everyday with the abstract in a style reminiscent of <I>The Little Prince</I>'s elliptical prose, Consuelo limns a man who loved her yet couldn't resist the adulation of other women or sit still long enough to build a life together. "You're the kind of man who is constantly in need of struggle, conquest," she tells him. "Leave, then. Leave." So off he went, on flights that often ended in crashes while she waited anxiously (but seldom patiently)--until he vanished for good during a wartime reconnaissance mission in 1944. Written a year later but unpublished until 2000, when it became a bestseller in France, Consuelo's portrait reveals a Saint-Exupéry far more human than the tragic, mythical hero constructed by his worshipful countrymen. <I>--Wendy Smith</I> 994824 2001 The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince total:82|5:21|4:30|3:24|2:6|1:1| 82 310 208 16 8841 0812967178 9780812967173 77 15 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165765583m/8841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8841.The_Tale_of_the_Rose_The_Love_Story_Behind_The_Little_Prince 3 2 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 16:45:54 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 12:47:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 8841 0812967178 9780812967173 77 15 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165765583m/8841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8841.The_Tale_of_the_Rose_The_Love_Story_Behind_The_Little_Prince 5 0 false Sat Jan 03 20:13:10 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 20:14:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 8841 0812967178 9780812967173 77 15 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165765583m/8841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8841.The_Tale_of_the_Rose_The_Love_Story_Behind_The_Little_Prince 4 3 false Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 13 09:02:19 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 08 07:41:35 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 8841 0812967178 9780812967173 77 15 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165765583m/8841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8841.The_Tale_of_the_Rose_The_Love_Story_Behind_The_Little_Prince 3 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 14 14:58:11 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 14:59:28 -0700 2009 8841 0812967178 9780812967173 77 15 3.78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165765583m/8841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8841.The_Tale_of_the_Rose_The_Love_Story_Behind_The_Little_Prince 2 0 false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Sep 11 09:07:38 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 13:51:38 -0700 2007
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