The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup

by Orlean, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780783894959
• ISBN10: 0783894953
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Summary

Now in paperback comes the wonderfully entertaining, bestselling collection of the "New Yorker" writer's brightest profiles. "A voyeur's delight: expertly framed windows into the cosmology of the human experience . . . [these profiles] reintroduce readers to a sense of possibility and help us see the world again."--Diana Abu-Jaber, "Miami Herald."

Author Biography

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 lives in New York City

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
The American Man, Age Ten	p. 3
Meet the Shaggs	p. 15
Show Dog	p. 27
The Maui Surfer Girls	p. 37
Living Large	p. 51
I Want This Apartment	p. 73
Devotion Road	p. 85
After the Party	p. 97
Shoot the Moon	p. 103
Short People	p. 125
Her Town	p. 167
King of the Road	p. 177
Tiffany	p. 189
A Gentle Reign	p. 201
This Is Perfect	p. 225
Short Cuts	p. 235
Figures in a Mall	p. 245
The Three Sisters	p. 257
Seriously Silly	p. 269
La Matadora Revisa Su Maquillaje / (The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup)	p. 279
Author's Note	p. 293
Acknowledgments	p. 295
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