The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader’s Circle)

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A brand new vintage of private journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly humorous, sublime, and charming story of an excellent obsession. Made up our minds to clone an endangered flower—the uncommon ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly sexy guy named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable excursion of The united states’s odd flower-promoting way of life, via Florida’s swamps and past, together with the Seminoles who lend a hand him and the forces of justice who combat him. Finally, Orlean—and the reader—may have extra admire for underdog choice and a strong new definition of interest.
 
On this new variation, coming fifteen years after its preliminary e-newsletter and 20 years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable international, and the course wherein it was once delivered to the monitor within the movie Adaptation, in a brand new retrospective essay.

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Praise for The Orchid Thief
 
“Stylishly written, whimsical but subtle, quirkily special and filled with empathy . . . The Orchid Thief presentations [Orlean’s] items in complete bloom.”—The New York Instances Guide Overview
 
“Interesting . . . an engrossing adventure [full] of robbery, hatred, greed, jealousy, insanity, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“Orlean’s picture-bright, pitch-easiest prose . . . is speedy turning into one among our nationwide treasures.”—The Washington Submit Guide World
 
“Orlean’s items [are] her ear for the self-skewing discussion, her eye for the incongruous, convincing element, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe
 
“A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates a few virtues that made The united states nice.”—The Wall Side road Journal
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