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SAINT-EXUPÉRY (330 pp.) - Marcel Migeo-McGraw-Hill...
Perilous Release. Author Migeo's reaction to the legend is an irritating grandiloquence and an equally bothersome coyness about his subject's personal life. Saint-Ex's mistress, for instance, is chivalrously called "Madame X," and her long and intense affair with him is left vague. Still, the biography has its value; the author, a pilot himself, knew Saint-Ex when they were both in flying school. Although, with typical exuberance, he calls his subject "a genius among the great men of his era," he is no hero-worshiper where Saint-Ex's flying is concerned...