A hilarious and sparkling collection of essays on people, famous, infamous and obscure, told with the gloriously eccentric wit that have made Susan Orlean one of America's best-known journalists and The Orchid Thief into a bestseller.
Susan Orlean has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1992 and has also written for Esquire, Vogue and Rolling Stone. She is the author of five books including the international bestseller The Orchid Thief, the inspiration for the film Adaptation directed by Spike Jonze and starring Nicholas Cage and Meryl Streep. Susan Orlean lives in Boston.
Orlean is compulsively curious... sinfully enjoyable[Orlean] is a
kind of latter-day de Tocqueville... She makes her subjects and the
places they inhabit seem utterly new as well as noble, sad and
loopy... a powerful portrait of life on the edge of the
mainstream
*New York Times*
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