A review by booksofgayle
Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

adventurous emotional

4.0

... as from an enchanted garden set with flowers, low houses, and slow waters, the pilot had just skirted the edge of a cyclone which never masked from him a single star. Nine passengers, huddled in their traveling-rugs, had pressed their foreheads on the window, as if it were a shop front glittering with gems. For now the little towns of Argentina were stringing through the night their golden beads, beneath the paler gold of the star cities. And at his prow the pilot held within his hands his freight of lives, eyes wide open, full of moonlight.

the plot was barely plotting but the lyrical ability of Saint-Exupéry is really in a class of its own. I bow down to the winged poet