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100	1		_aOrlean, Susan
245	1	4	_aThe bullfighter checks her makeup : _bmy encounters with extraordinary people _c/ Susan Orlean
260			_aNew York _b: Random House Trade Paperbacks _c, 2002, c2001
300			_a313 p. _c; 21 cm.
505	0	0	_aThe American man, age ten -- Meet the Shaggs -- Show dog -- The Maui surfer girls -- Living large -- I want this apartment -- Devotion road -- After the party -- Shoot the moon -- Short people -- Her town -- King of the road -- Tiffany -- A gentle reign -- This is perfect -- Short cuts -- Figures in a mall -- The three sisters -- Seriously silly -- La Matadora revisa su maquillaje (The bullfighter checks her makeup).
520			_aMeet more than thirty-five of Susan Orlean's favorite people - from the well known (Bill Blass and Tonya Harding) to the unknown (a typical ten-year-old boy) to the formerly known (the 1960s girl group the Shaggs). Passionate people. Famous people. Short people. Young people. And one championship show dog named Biff, who from a certain angle looks a lot like President Clinton. Orlean transports us into the lives of some rather eccentric individuals, like the man who has spent thirty years selling nothing but ceiling fans; or Bob Silverstein, maker of the Big Chair - the creme de la creme of oversized chairs used for novelty photographs at carnivals. Others are living highly unusual lives, like Cristina Sanchez, the eponymous bullfighter, the first woman to become a matador in Spain; or the African king who drives a taxi in New York City and keeps his throne in his living room. Whether describing the sun-drenched existence of a Maui surfer girl or the devoted life of the Jackson Southernaires - a traveling gospel group - Orlean writes with such insight and candor that readers will feel as if they've met each and every one of these unconventional folks. Susan Orlean brings her wry sensibility, exuberant voice, and peculiar curiosities to a fascinating range of subcultures - sports and music and hairdressing and real estate, among others. The result is a joyful, luminous tour of the human condition via an eclectic array of people, as seen through the eyes of one of America's most entertaining and original literary journalists.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aInterviews _x-United States
650		4	_aBiography _x-20th Century
651		4	_aUnited States _v-Biography
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Civilization _y-1970 -
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Civilization _x-Anecdotes
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