Susan Orlean Libri
Questo autore esplora la bellezza e il potere della narrazione attraverso una passione decennale per il racconto e la creazione di frasi. Il suo lavoro è radicato in un profondo amore per l'arte che lo ha spinto fin dall'inizio della sua carriera. Crea una prosa accattivante con uno stile distintivo, che riflette una dedizione incrollabile alla padronanza dell'arte della scrittura. La sua scrittura è una testimonianza della potenza delle parole e della loro capacità di catturare i lettori.





The bestselling author of Rin Tin Tin and The Orchid Thief reopens the unsolved mystery of one of the most catastrophic library fires in history and delivers a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries.
On Animals
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Magnificent.” — The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” — San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” — Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” — The Boston GlobeSusan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Library Book —gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals.“How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,” writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon , she’s been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. Now, in On Animals , she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career.These stories consider a range of creatures—the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. In her own backyard, Orlean discovers the delights of keeping chickens. In a different backyard, in New Jersey, she meets a woman who has twenty-three pet tigers—something none of her neighbors knew about until one of the tigers escapes. In Iceland, the world’s most famous whale resists the efforts to set him free; in Morocco, the world’s hardest-working donkeys find respite at a special clinic. We meet a show dog and a lost dog and a pigeon who knows exactly how to get home.Equal parts delightful and profound, enriched by Orlean’s stylish prose and precise research, these stories celebrate the meaningful cross-species connections that grace our collective existence.
The Orchid Thief
- 368pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
Set in the state of Florida, this book traces the history and detail of the enigmatic orchid through the tale of John Laroche, an orchid thief.
Az orchideatolvaj
- 293pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Susan Orlean lenyűgöző, szépségről és szenvedélyről szóló igaz történetének orchideatolvaja a megszállott növénykereskedő, a szélsőségesen különc John Laroche. Őt és három indián társát 1994-ben letartóztatták azzal a váddal, hogy ritka orchideákat loptak egy dél-floridai tájvédelmi körzetből. Úgy tervezték, hogy szaporítani fogják a virágokat, majd nagy haszonnal adják el őket a fanatikus gyűjtőknek. Miután tetten érték, Laroche ügye az utóbbi évek legfurcsább jogi vitáját robbantotta ki, amelyben részt vettek a környezetvédők és az amerikai indián aktivisták egyaránt. Könyvében Susan Orlean nyomon követi a tolvajok útját, a mocsarakon át az orchideagyűjtők zárt világába, az arisztokraták, a kereskedők és a csempészek közé, akiknek életét szinte kizárólag a növények iránti rajongás tölti ki. A könyv mégis elsősorban a szenvedélyről szól és arról, hogy mi mindent vagyunk hajlandóak megtenni azért, hogy elérhessük vágyainkat.