The release date for the English version of 'The Orchid Thief' by
Susan Orlean is Jan 2000. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Susan Orlean tells the story of an incredible passion in The Orchid Thief. A deeply eccentric and strangely handsome man named John Laroche is determined to clone an endangered flower, the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii. With the help of the Seminoles who support him and the forces of justice who oppose him, Orlean embarks on an unforgettable tour of America's peculiar flower-selling subculture, through Florida's swamps and beyond. By the conclusion, both Orlean and the reader will have a deeper appreciation for tenacity under pressure and a profoundly different understanding of passion.
This new version, which comes fifteen years after it was initially published and twenty years after Orlean encountered the "orchid thief," is a retrospective essay that takes readers back to this remarkable universe and the process by which it was adapted for the big screen in the movie Adaptation.