He'd had steady romances with turtles, fossils, and tropical. The flower wasn’t beautiful – it was absorbing.” Orlean shows great restraint and never adopts an orchid – readers may not manage to be so cold-blooded. John Laroche, the central character in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief (Random House 25), is not so much orchidaceous as obsessive. Fascinated both by Laroche and the world she uncovered of orchid collectors and growers, she stayed on, to. The center of the flower looked like the face of a piglet. A True Story of Beauty and Obsession Susan Orlean first met John Laroche when visiting Florida to write for the NEW YORKER about his arrest for stealing rare ghost orchids from a nature reserve. The background of the petals was the beigy yellow of a legal pad, and over the yellow background was a spray of hot-pink pinpoint dots. Just when you fear you’re lost in the Everglades, she returns to the flower at hand, and unleashes some delirious prose: “I thought I might die if I couldn’t have this one. The Orchid Thief The orchid thief is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy in spite of the fact that he is missing all his teeth. Orlean’s hilariously reported, discursive narrative wanders off into Seminole history, real-estate fraud, stolen flora, and the scary, swampy Fakahatchee Strand. Read The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Orlean, Susan, lexile & reading level:, (ISBN: 9780307795298). Orlean, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, tells us about the. You sometimes don’t want to read on, but find you can’t help it. Daniel talks with Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Random House, 1999). The Orchid Thief is a lesson in the dark, dangerous, sometimes hilarious nature of obsessionany obsession. There, he belongs – orchid people are all crazy. Orlean is a beautiful writer, and her story is compelling even for those whose knowledge of orchids is limited to the long-ago prom corsage.
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He’d had steady romances with turtles, fossils, and tropical fish before he even entered the shade house full of the sort of people who fight over Polyrrhiza lindenii.
John Laroche, the central character in Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief (Random House $25), is not so much orchidaceous as obsessive.
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