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Title: Studio Saint-Ex
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Ania Szado
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-04-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
This sleek, stylish novel set in 1940s New York, between the shock of Pearl Harbor and the landing of American troops in Europe, is a deft, romantic novel about a wartime love triangle involving a 22-year-old fashion designer poised to launch her career; the French expatriate writer and war pilot, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, whos left his Nazi-occupied country and come to Manhattan for a month, only to stay for two years; and his beautiful, estranged Salvadoran wife determined to winback her husband at all costs - and seductions.
With Paris under occupation by Hitlers troops, New Yorks 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 industrys brightest names, and Mignonne Lachapelle is determined to be among them. Her ambition and ethics are clear until she falls for the celebrated and tormented adventurer Captain Saint-Exupéry.
In New York, Saint-Ex writes a new book on the fall of France, Flight to Arras,and collects (a year late) his National Book Award for Wind, Sand and Stars. But he suffers under exile and, todistract himself from his malaise, begins work on a new book at his US publishers offhand suggestion: an exotic fable.
Nothing about Migs tempestuous, romantic relationship with Saint-Ex is straightforward, but the greatest complication will come in the form of his deceptively simple manuscript about a petit bonhomme in the Sahara Desert fallen to earth on a journey across the planets.
Members Reviews:
Two Stars
I found it very contrived and repetitive.
An insightful story of two very different women in love with the author of The Little Prince
An insightful story of two very different women in love with the author of The Little Prince, during the second world war, as he was writing the famous book in Manhattan. On the background of historical events, the plot weaves the processes of creating in fashion and literature, and complicated interacting between fascinating personalities. The characters seem so true, that reading this book is almost like watching a movie.. Szado's prose is fluid and poetic. This book is unforgettable.
A highwayscribery Book Report
"Studio St. Ex" is about how talent alone is not enough to elevate those seeking fame, money, the bright lights and all that.
Mignonne Lachapelle is a young woman, not of humble means. She has an inheritance and the good will her father compiled serving the French ex-pat community of New York City in the 1930s and '40s.
Her desire is to be a fashion designer at the height of the World War II, when fabrics are being rationed and fashion is stalled, because life-and-death matters now occupy France, when France was fashion.
"Studio St. Ex" is told mostly by Mignonne, although a third person narration this reviewer could never figure out was delivering says of her:
"Fashion at its best was the most subtle and complicated of aphrodisiacs, and the girl had a witch's instinct for the nuances of desires."
To Consuelo, the girl has fire in her, "The stubborness and strength of a bulldog in the body of a whippet."
Through contacts made at what used to be her late father's club, Mignonne falls in with the St. Exuperys. That's St.
