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9780553756562

The Orchid Thief

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  • ISBN13:

    9780553756562

  • ISBN10:

    0553756567

  • Edition: Unabridged
  • Format: CD
  • Copyright: 2002-09-01
  • Publisher: Random House Audio
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Summary

Describes the life and times of John Laroche, a plant smuggler and orchid thief, and the eccentric world of Florida's obsessed collectors of rare plants. (Tie-in to upcoming feature film directed by Spike Jonze and starring Nicholas Cage and Meryl Streep.) (Biography)

Author Biography

<b>Susan Orlean</b> has been a staff writer at <i>The New Yorker</i> 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.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>

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