The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People-Fast Shipping

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

Acclaimed New Yorker writer SusanOrlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to afascinating range of subjects—from the well known (Bill Blass) to the unknown (atypical 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 namedBiff, who from a certain angle looks a lot like Bill Clinton. Orlean transports usinto the lives of eccentric and extraordinary characters—like Cristina Sánchez, theeponymous bullfighter, the first female matador of Spain—and writes with such insightand 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 throughthe eyes of the writer heralded by the Chicago Tribune as a “journalist dynamo.”