Author: Susan Orlean
Translator: Young-shin Kim, So-young Lee
Publisher: Hyundae Munhak
427 pages
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About This Book
Original novel for the film "Adaptation" starring Nicholas Cage and Meryl
Streep
In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche,
a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he
is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994,
Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested with rare orchids they had
stolen from a wild swamp in south Florida that is filled with some of the
world's most extraordinary plants and trees. Laroche had planned to clone the
orchids and then sell them for a small fortune to impassioned collectors. After
he was caught in the act, Laroche set off one of the oddest legal controversies
in recent memory, which brought together environmentalists, Native Amer-ican
activists, and devoted orchid collectors. The result is a tale that is strange,
compelling, and hilarious.
New Yorker writer Susan Orlean followed Laroche through swamps and into the
eccentric world of Florida's orchid collectors, a subculture of aristocrats,
fanatics, and smugglers whose obsession with plants is all-consuming. Along the
way, Orlean learned the history of orchid collecting, discovered an odd pattern
of plant crimes in Florida, and spent time with Laroche's partners, a tribe of
Seminole Indians who are still at war with the United States.
There is something fascinating or funny or truly bizarre on every page of The
Orchid Thief: the story of how the head of a famous Seminole chief came to be
displayed in the front window of a local pharmacy; or how seven hundred iguanas
were smuggled into Florida; or the case of the only known extraterrestrial plant
crime. Ultimately, however, Susan Orlean's book is about passion itself, and the
amazing lengths to which people will go to gratify it. That passion is captured
with singular vision in The Orchid Thief, a once-in-a-lifetime story by one of
our most original journalists.
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