Studio Saint-Ex: A novel
āļĄāļī.āļĒ. 2013 · Knopf
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A sleek, stylish novel set in the sophisticated, dazzling New York of the 1940s, between the shock of Pearl Harbor and the first landing of American troops in Europeâa deft, romantic novel about a wartime triangle involving a twenty-two-year-old fashion designer poised to launch her promising career . . . the acclaimed French expatriate writer/war pilot, Antoine de Saint-ExupÃĐry, whoâs fled his Nazi-occupied country and come to Manhattan for a month, only to stay for two years . . . and his beautiful, estranged Salvadoran wife, the tempestuous, vain Consuelo, determined to win back her husband at all costsâand seductions.
With Paris under occupation by Hitlerâs troops, New Yorkâs Mayor La Guardia has vowed to turn his city into the new fashion capital of the world. A handful of American designers are set to become the industryâs first names, and Mignonne Lachapelle is determined to be among them. Her ambition and ethics are clear and uncomplicated, until she falls for the celebrated and tormented adventurer Captain Antoine de Saint-ExupÃĐry, who, six months after the surrender of France, has fled Europeâs ashen skies after flying near-suicidal reconnaissance missions for the French Air Force. In New York, he writes a new book on the fall of France, Flight to Arras (it becomes a number-one best seller) and collects (a year late) his 1939 National Book Award for his Wind, Sand and Stars, a poetic account of his flying escapades over North Africa and South America (by the time of his arrival in New York, in early 1941, the book has sold 250,000 copies). To distract himself from his malaise about France and at being in exile, and at his publisherâs offhand suggestion, he begins work on a childrenâs story about a âpetit bonhommeâ in the Sahara Desert . . .
Nothing about Migâs relationship with Saint-Ex is simple, not his turmoil and unhappiness about being in New York and grounded from wartime skies, nor Migâs tempestuous sexual encounter with Antoine and the blurring boundaries of their artistic pursuits, Âor Saint-ExupÃĐryâs wife who insidiously entangles Mig in her schemes to reclaim her husband. The greatest complication of Migâs bond with Saint-ExupÃĐry comes in the form of a deceptively simple manuscript: Antoineâs work in progress about a little boy, a prince, whoâs fallen to earth on a journey across the planets . . .
An irresistible novel that brings to life the complex, now almost mythic Saint-ExupÃĐry and the glittering life of wartime New York.
This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.Â
With Paris under occupation by Hitlerâs troops, New Yorkâs Mayor La Guardia has vowed to turn his city into the new fashion capital of the world. A handful of American designers are set to become the industryâs first names, and Mignonne Lachapelle is determined to be among them. Her ambition and ethics are clear and uncomplicated, until she falls for the celebrated and tormented adventurer Captain Antoine de Saint-ExupÃĐry, who, six months after the surrender of France, has fled Europeâs ashen skies after flying near-suicidal reconnaissance missions for the French Air Force. In New York, he writes a new book on the fall of France, Flight to Arras (it becomes a number-one best seller) and collects (a year late) his 1939 National Book Award for his Wind, Sand and Stars, a poetic account of his flying escapades over North Africa and South America (by the time of his arrival in New York, in early 1941, the book has sold 250,000 copies). To distract himself from his malaise about France and at being in exile, and at his publisherâs offhand suggestion, he begins work on a childrenâs story about a âpetit bonhommeâ in the Sahara Desert . . .
Nothing about Migâs relationship with Saint-Ex is simple, not his turmoil and unhappiness about being in New York and grounded from wartime skies, nor Migâs tempestuous sexual encounter with Antoine and the blurring boundaries of their artistic pursuits, Âor Saint-ExupÃĐryâs wife who insidiously entangles Mig in her schemes to reclaim her husband. The greatest complication of Migâs bond with Saint-ExupÃĐry comes in the form of a deceptively simple manuscript: Antoineâs work in progress about a little boy, a prince, whoâs fallen to earth on a journey across the planets . . .
An irresistible novel that brings to life the complex, now almost mythic Saint-ExupÃĐry and the glittering life of wartime New York.
This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.Â
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Ania Szado graduated from the Ontario College of Art and the University of British Columbia. Her first novel, Beginning of Was, was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writersâ Prize. Her writing has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Globe and Mail, Flare, and This Magazine. She lives in Toronto.
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