- Hardcover: 294 pages
- Publisher: Thorndike Press; Lrg edition (Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0783894953
- ISBN-13: 978-0783894959
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.6 x 2.8 cm
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
I loved this book.
6 Feb 2001
Format:Hardcover
Susan Orlean writes with more grace, style and wit than anyone in the magazine world today. These well-reported, beautifully crafted profiles of both known and unknown characters show her at the top of her form. Orlean has a knack for being at the right place at the right time to capture a telling detail or quote and, contrary to the wrongheaded and ignorant comments in a few of the customer reviews here, she is, if anything, self-effacing and unobtrusive as she brings the reader deeply into the lives of her subjects. Literary journalism as an art form necessarily includes the author's voice and point of view -- these are what make it less artificial and far more interesting than standard "objective" reporting. The rave reviews for this book in the New York Times and other publications are well justified.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Engaging, if Also a Little Repetitive
12 Mar 2001
Format:Hardcover
Susan Orlean is indeed one of the best magazine writers out there right now--one of the best catches of Tina Brown's from the Dark Ages of the New Yorker! And this book is definitely a must for anyone interested in the contemporary nonfiction world. However, by limiting the collection to merely profiles, Orlean has limited the reader's appreciation of her great talents. The books ends up repeating itself too much.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
A thoroughly entertaining, fun and inspiring book
29 Jan 2001
Format:Hardcover
After reading Susan Orlean's excellent The Orchid Thief last year and having followed some of her recent writing in The New Yorker (particularly a fantastic piece on the hapless New Hampshire girl-rock group from the 1970's, The Shaggs), I was eagerly awaiting this collection of profiles. It not only surpassed my very high expectations for literary quality, it is one of the funniest and most entertaining, lively and moving books I have read in quite awhile. She gets these people down perfectly and is a master of the revealing touch. The opening chapter on a typical 10-year-old American boy is my favorite -- it allows the reader to enter a kid's world very much from his point of view while overlaying a beautifully reported and crafted commentary that manages all at once to be empathetic, witty,ironic and highly informative. The ending of this piece, like the ending to both the introduction and the title piece on the first female matador in Spain which concludes the book, is hauntingly poignant and gets to what Orlean is really about here: showing the extraordinarily captivating nature of what seemingly ordinary people are really like when closely examined in their own subcultures. The intelligence and insight she brings to bear in joyfully sharing with the reader what she has discovered is what makes this book so wonderful.
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