The Bullfighter Checks Her Mak (Thorndike Core) - Hardcover

Orlean, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783894953 ISBN 13: 9780783894959

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2001

Synopsis

The author of The Orchid Thief is back - and she's brought some friends - in this collection of the acclaimed New Yorker writer's best and brightest profiles. Meet more than thirty-five of Susan Orlean's favorite people - from the well known (Bill Blass and Tonya Harding) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs).

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Review

Orlean s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose...is fast becoming one of our national treasures.
The Washington Post Book World
Susan Orlean is a master of the quick sketch....She writes arresting, short pieces, serendipitous material that readers stumble across by chance, then read on, transfixed by the casual grace and beauty of these miniatures.
San Francisco Chronicle
Through the power of energetic reporting and sharp writing, the national character is precisely what Orlean captures. She is a kind of latter-day Tocqueville.
The New York Times Book Review
Reading Bullfighter will leave you convinced that the world is much wider and stranger than you had thought and that the most ordinary-seeming people are often the most remarkable.
Us Weekly"

"Orlean's snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose...is fast becoming one of our national treasures."
--The Washington Post Book World
"Susan Orlean is a master of the quick sketch....She writes arresting, short pieces, serendipitous material that readers stumble across by chance, then read on, transfixed by the casual grace and beauty of these miniatures."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Through the power of energetic reporting and sharp writing, the national character is precisely what Orlean captures. She is a kind of latter-day Tocqueville."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Reading Bullfighter will leave you convinced that the world is much wider and stranger than you had thought and that the most ordinary-seeming people are often the most remarkable."
--Us Weekly

About the Author

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. Her articles have also appeared in Outside, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Esquire. She is the author of Saturday Night, a New York Times Notable Book of 1990, which, in the words of Entertainment Weekly, "calls to mind Damon Runyon, Evelyn Waugh, and screwball comedy." She lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0783894953
• ISBN 13: 9780783894959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294