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THE BULLFIGHTER CHECKS HER MAKEUP: My Encounters with Extraordinary People.
by Orlean, Susan
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket (slight sunning to spine of dj)/like
- ISBN 10
- 0679462988
- ISBN 13
- 9780679462989
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About This Item
New York:: Random House,, (2001.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - . Very near fine in a like dustjacket (slight sunning to spine of dj). First printing. The third book - a collection of 35 essays by this New Yorker writer and the author of "The Orchid Thief" (which was the basis of the film, "Adaptation" featuring Meryl Streep.) The subjects include people, famous, infamous, and obscure and even a dog with a resemblence to Bill Clinton. Among those profiled are the eponymous Cristina Sanchez, the first woman to become a matador in Spain; Bill Blass and Tonya Harding, a traveling gospel group, the Southernaires, and an African king who is a New York city taxi-driver. SIGNED on the title page. 294 pp.
Synopsis
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.
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- Title
- THE BULLFIGHTER CHECKS HER MAKEUP: My Encounters with Extraordinary People.
- Author
- Orlean, Susan
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket (slight sunning to spine of dj)
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679462988
- ISBN 13
- 9780679462989
- Publisher
- Random House,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2001.)
- Keywords
- bullfighting, clown, new york city, profiles, new yorker magazine,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays;
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