Character studies
Subtitle: encounters with the curiously obsessed
By: Mark Singer.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Characters and characteristics -- United States.; Eccentrics and eccentricities -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: This selection of biographical essays by the "New Yorker" writer features produce farmer Tom Chino, illusionist Ricky Jay, director Martin Scorsese, chefs Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, and many others.
Table of contents: title: Secrets of the magus; title: Trump solo; title: Joe Mitchell's secret; title: La Cabeza de Villa; title: The Chinos' artful harvest; title: Keepers of the flame; title: Mom overboard!; title: The book eater; title: The man who forgets nothing.