- Anecdotes, Plant collectors, Florida, Nursery growers
The orchid thief in Susan Orlean's true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti.
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Contemporary, classical in form, cool and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Susan Orlean
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Random House, Ballantine Books, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781565116900
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