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24%OFFSusan Orlean - The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession - 9780099289586 - V9780099289586
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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

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Description for The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession Paperback. The story of orchid thief and obsessive, John Laroche, and the bizarre world of the orchid fanciers of Florida. The world of the orchid hunters, breeders and showmen, their rivalries, vendettas and crimes, smuggling, thefts and worse provide the backdrop to an exploration of one of the byways of human nature, the obsessive world of the collector. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BG; WMPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.

Susan Orlean first met John Laroche when visiting Florida to write for the New Yorker about his arrest for stealing rare ghost orchids from a nature reserve. Fascinated both by Laroche and the world she uncovered of orchid collectors and growers, she stayed on, to write this magical exploration of obsession and the strange world both of the orchid obsessives and of Florida, that haunting and weird 'debatable land' of swamps and condos, retirement communities and real-estate scams.

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099289586
SKU
V9780099289586
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About Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean became a staff writer for the New Yorker in 1992 and has also written for Esquire, Vogue and Rolling Stone. She is the author of three other books of non-fiction.

Reviews for The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
Like the orchid, a small thing of grandeur, a passion with a pedigree... The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean's] gifts in full bloom
New York Times Book Review
A lesson in the dark, dangerous, sometimes hilarious nature of obsession...you sometimes don't want to read on, but find you can't help it
USA Today
Irresistable... A brilliantly reported ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession


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