![]() ![]() He planned to clone them by the millions, he explained to the arresting officers, and then sell them to collectors around the world.Īs he awaited trial, Orlean decided to hang out with Laroche and learn about him and his world. Laroche, along with three Seminole assistants, had been caught as they emerged from southern Florida's Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve, a vast swamp, carrying four pillowcases containing more than 200 rare orchids and bromeliads. The thief of the title is John Laroche, ''skinny as a stick, pale-eyed, slouch-shouldered and sharply handsome, in spite of the fact that he is missing all his front teeth.'' Orlean had noticed a short article about him in a local ![]() #The orchid thief full#It shows her gifts in full bloom, as well as the challenges, even for such a talented journalist, of writing at this length. It is Orlean's first book-length narrative (after two collections, the first one short pieces about New England, the second portraits of Americans celebrating ''The Orchid Thief'' grew out of an article like those, for The New Yorker. It would be lightly first person, with the few things Orlean revealed about herself things you were probably glad to know, and yet the whole would feel Not have thought about empathetically before - might not have thought about at all. It would be stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy for a person you might Of a 10-year-old boy in New Jersey Saturday night with a lounge band in Portland, Ore. It would have a narrow focus: the routine Iven a stack of 30 long features from the nation's magazines, a reader could quickly find the one written by Susan Orlean. Tracking one man's obsession, the author is led into the hidden subculture of orchid collectors. ![]()
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