The Orchid Thief

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THE ORCHID THIEF "Between hardcovers, nobody but Carl Hiaasen can talk Florida to me the way Susan Orlean has in The Orchid Thief, which so richly captures the Sunshine State's bizarre personality, its fevered optimism, its hurricane whims of passión, the hard heat of those not always legal dreams that have made its citizens notorious. Orlean has crafted a classic tale of tropic desire, steamy and fragrant and smart and entertaining." -Bob Shacochis "The Orchid Thief is the finest piece of nonfiction l've read in years: characters so juicy and wonderfully weird they might have stepped out of a növel, exceptthese people are real. The Orchid Thief \s everything we expect from the very best literature. It opens our eyes to an extraordinary new universe and stirs our passión for the people who populate the world. Susan Orlean is a writer of immense talent. I would follow her anywhere." - james W. Hall "Hot orchids are the starting point of Susan Orlean's account of plants and people... Tovább

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THE ORCHID THIEF "Between hardcovers, nobody but Carl Hiaasen can talk Florida to me the way Susan Orlean has in The Orchid Thief, which so richly captures the Sunshine State's bizarre personality, its fevered optimism, its hurricane whims of passión, the hard heat of those not always legal dreams that have made its citizens notorious. Orlean has crafted a classic tale of tropic desire, steamy and fragrant and smart and entertaining." -Bob Shacochis "The Orchid Thief is the finest piece of nonfiction l've read in years: characters so juicy and wonderfully weird they might have stepped out of a növel, exceptthese people are real. The Orchid Thief \s everything we expect from the very best literature. It opens our eyes to an extraordinary new universe and stirs our passión for the people who populate the world. Susan Orlean is a writer of immense talent. I would follow her anywhere." - james W. Hall "Hot orchids are the starting point of Susan Orlean's account of plants and people obsessed with them in the weird world that is south Florida. Along the way, she meets Seminoles, alligators, and a variety of crazy white men. The Orchid 777/efprovides further, compelling evidence that truth is stranger than fiction. In this case it makes most entertaining reading." -Aiidrjw Weil "Susan Orlean's prose is always lucid, lyrical, and deceptively comfortable, but with The Orchid Thief, she's in danger of launching a national epidemic of orchid mania. The passión is infectious and addictive." -Katherjhe Dunn Vissza