![]() ![]() She splits her time between Los Angeles, California and the Hudson Valley of New York. The Orchid Thief was a true story of a man, John Laroche, and his quest to find rare orchids especially, the ghost orchid. Orlean spends two years attempting to place maverick Laroche in the rigid strata of orchid society, the heart of which is located in Florida. She is a bestselling author whose works include The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and Rin Tin Tin. When my mind is on a mystery, I’m useless behind the wheel. And she was right about me being hopeless. Susan Orlean first met John Laroche when visiting Florida to write for the New Yorker about his arrest for stealing rare ghost orchids from a nature reserve. We’ve been in Florida for less than an hour, and you’ve already gotten us lost My friend Bess Marvin was the one doing the talking. Susan Orlean is a staff writer for The New Yorker. The Orchid Thief 1 Island Intrigue You’re totally hopeless, Nancy. At the same time Charlie is going through melancholic depression and his twin brother Donald moves into his house in Los Angeles, mooching off Charlie. During the filming of Being John Malkovich, the self-loathing and social phobic Charlie Kaufman is hired to write the screenplay. I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear. The Orchid Thief is then optioned by Columbia Pictures. ![]() Sometimes I think I’ve figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida. If you had really loved something, wouldn’t a little bit of it always linger? In the end, Orlean-and the reader-will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. Determined to clone an endangered flower-the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii-a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. Expanded from a New Yorker article, this long-winded if well-informed tale has less to do with John Laroche, the thief, than it does with our authors. A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. ![]()
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