The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People

Orlean, Susan

ISBN 10: 0375758631 / ISBN 13: 9780375758638

Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks (edition Reprint), 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People
• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (edition Reprint)
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375758631
• ISBN 13: 9780375758638
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

The bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book is back with this delightfully entertaining collection of her best and brightest profiles.

Acclaimed New Yorker 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).

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.

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.”

About the Author

Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker 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.