The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with

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The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People

The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief is back â€” and she's brought some friends â€” in this wonderfully entertaining collection of the acclaimed New Yorker writer's best and brightest profiles. Meet more than thirty-five of Susan Orlean's favorite people â€” from the well known (Bill Blass and Tonya Harding) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs).

Passionate people. Famous people. Short people. Young people. And one championship show dog named Biff, who from a certain angle looks a lot like President Clinton.

Orlean transports us into the lives of some rather eccentric individuals, like the man who has spent thirty years selling nothing but ceiling fans; or Bob Silverstein, maker of the Big Chair â€” the creme de la creme of oversized chairs used for novelty photographs at carnivals. Others are living highly unusual lives, like Cristina Sanchez, the eponymous bullfighter, the first woman to become a matador in Spain; or the African king who drives a taxi in New York City and keeps his throne in his living room. Whether describing the sun-drenched existence of a Maui surfer girl or the devoted life of the Jackson Southernaires â€” a traveling gospel group â€” Orlean writes with such insight and candor that readers will feel as if they've met each and every one of these unconventional folks.

Susan Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to a fascinating range of subcultures â€” sports and music and hairdressing and real estate, among others. The result is a joyful, luminous tour of the human condition via an eclectic array of people, as seen through the eyes of one of America's most entertaining and original literary journalists.

Country	USA
Author	Susan Orlean
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780375506789
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Random House
Manufacturer	Random House
NumberOfPages	336
PublicationDate	2001-03-10
Publisher	Random House
ReleaseDate	2001-03-10
Studio	Random House

The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People

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