{"product_id":"the-tale-of-the-rose-the-love-story-behind-the-little-prince-paperback","title":"The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind the Little Prince - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eConsuelo de Saint-Exupery\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the spring of 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exup ry 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is Consuelo's account of their extraordinary marriage. It is a love story about a pilot and his wife, a man who yearned for the stars and the spirited woman who gave him the strength to fulfill his dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Consuelo Suncin Sandoval de G mez and Antoine de Saint-Exup ry met in Buenos Aires in 1930--she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a man of extravagant dreams, and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Prince's beloved rose--unique in all the world--whom he could not live with and could not live without. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written on Long Island in a quiet spell of reconciliation, \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e was Antoine's greatest gift to the woman he never stopped loving, the only child to emerge from their union. \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We find in these pages all the tenderness and patience, but also the tenacity, of a woman who loves. Consuelo does not seek to explain or even to understand her husband, she accepts him and leads him to what he must be. . . . Written with a strong and authentic voice, \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is a book to read for its strength of character, and for the adventure that it offers.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupery met in Buenos Aires in 1930--she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife. \u003cbr\u003eTheir love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. \"The Tale of the Rose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Prince's beloved rose--unique in all the world--whom he could not live with and could not live without.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsuelo de Saint-Exupery wrote \u003cb\u003eThe Tale of the Rose\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/b\u003e to her gardener.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.02 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 14, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468561465597,"sku":"9780812967173","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/Skt1MUlXTHk3dzNNY28yRFFLVFJGUT09.webp?v=1777290457","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-tale-of-the-rose-the-love-story-behind-the-little-prince-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}