The orchid stories

A classic work of American fiction and a masterpiece of eccentric detail.Praised by John Ashbery as evoking âa rococo world of banality and nightmare which . . . comes in the end to seem like paradise.â The Orchid Stories presents us with interwoven stories as delicate and exquisite as the flowers for which theyâre named, conveying an almost otherworldly beauty. Images, moods, and characters recur with the clarity of a dream: Phil, the little boy gigolo; Mummers and Mummy, who âadoptâ him; the alluring Diana Vienna; and the eccentric Dr. Schmidlapp, who plans to capture the rare âNative Innardsâ orchid precisely at the stroke of midnight.