The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up - Brossura

Orlean, Susan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 043400877X ISBN 13: 9780434008773

Casa editrice: William Heinemann, 2001

Riassunto

Susan Orlean's collection of profiles ranges from the well-known (Marky Mark) to the unknown (Colin Duffy, a typical American man, aged ten) to the formerly known (the cult sixties girl group the Shaggs). Orlean meets with Cristina Sanchez, Spain's first fully-qualified female matador, Silly Billy, New York's most successful children's clown, an African king who is a New York taxi-driver, and a champion show dog called Biff, who from a certain angle looks like President Clinton. As in her remarkable bestseller The Orchid Thief, soon to be the basis of Spike Being John Malkovich Jonze's new film, starring Meryl Streep and Nicholas Cage, Orlean's eye for the fascinatingly bizarre and her wonderfully witty way with language make her take on the world utterly original and unique.

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Recensione:

"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)

Descrizione del libro:

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.

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• Editore: William Heinemann
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 043400877X
• ISBN 13: 9780434008773
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320