A review by rschmidt7
Southern Mail by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3.0

As with all of St.-Exupery's writing, this contains beautiful and moving poetic passages about the glory and danger of flight. The plot is simple - it follows the pilot, Jacques Bernis, as he flies the mail route from Toulouse, France south to Africa, with an ultimate goal of South America - and the book is so well-written in parts that it is almost a prose-poem. The subplot about the love between Bernis and Genevieve I thought was distracting and took away from the book as a whole. If you like St.-Exupery's other books, you will enjoy this, but I don't think it one of his best. "Night Flight" covers some of the same ideas and does them better; I would recommend that over "Southern Mail."