: The Orchid Thief: A True Story Of Beauty And Obsession (No:3555)
: Susan Orlean
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: Fascinated both by Laroche and the world she uncovered of orchid collectors and growers, she stayed on, to write this magical exploration of obsession and the strange world both of the orchid obsessives,
: A Manhattan kleptomaniac remembers her childhood spent in her uncle's high-fashion Madison Avenue department store, where she lived a fairy-tale existence before suffering a devastating loss that led to her termination from her advertising job and recruitment into an organized South American shoplifting ring. 75,000 first printing.