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Travel Stories From A Woman Who's Been Everywhere
Random House Trade Paperbacks
October 2005
On Sale: October 11, 2005
320 pages
ISBN: 0812974875
EAN: 9780812974874
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Non-Fiction
Susan Orlean has been called “a national treasure” by The
Washington Post and “a kind of latter-day Tocqueville” by
The New York Times Book Review. In addition to having
written classic articles for The New Yorker, she was played,
with some creative liberties, by Meryl Streep in her Golden
Globe Award—winning performance in the film Adaptation.Now,
in My Kind of Place, the real Susan Orlean takes readers on
a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty,
sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this
irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean
conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the
heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World
Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois–and even
into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous
houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality.With Orlean
as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair
activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike
most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with
Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a
country where baseball and politics are inextricably
intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s
favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay
awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a
place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore
the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known
as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New
Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest
concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the
world. Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably
entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker
have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place
is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary
journalists.From the Hardcover edition.
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