The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup - by Susan Orlean (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The bestselling author of <i>The Orchid Thief</i> and <i>The Library Book</i> is back with this delightfully entertaining collection of her best and brightest profiles. </b> <p/>Acclaimed <i>New Yorker</i> writer Susan Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to a fascinating range of subjects--from the well known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs). <p/> Passionate people. Famous people. Short people. And one championship show dog named Biff, who from a certain angle looks a lot like Bill Clinton. Orlean transports us into the lives of eccentric and extraordinary characters--like Cristina Sánchez, the eponymous bullfighter, the first female matador of Spain--and writes with such insight and candor that readers will feel as if they've met each and every one of them. <p/> The result is a luminous and joyful tour of the human condition as seen through the eyes of the writer heralded by the Chicago Tribune as a "journalist dynamo."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Orlean's snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose...is fast becoming one of our national treasures."<br>--The Washington Post Book World <p/>"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."<br>--San Francisco Chronicle <p/>"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."<br>--The New York Times Book Review <p/>"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."<br>--Us Weekly<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at <i>The New Yorker</i> since 1992. Her articles have also appeared in <i>Outside, Rolling Stone, Vogue, </i> and <i>Esquire</i>. She is the author of <b>Saturday Night</b>, a <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of 1990, which, in the words of <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>, "calls to mind Damon Runyon, Evelyn Waugh, and screwball comedy." She lives in New York City.
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