In Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive.

At the age of twenty-three, Connors was a young man on the make. He'd left behind the Minnesota pig farm on which he'd grown up and the brother with whom he'd never been especially close. He had a magazine job lined up in New York and a future unfolding exactly as he'd hoped. Then a phone call out of the blue changed everything. All the Wrong Places is a searingly honest account of the aftermath of his brother's shocking death, exploring both the pathos and the unlikely humour of a life unmoored by loss.

About the Author
Philip Connors is the author of Fire Season, which won the Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize, the National Outdoor Book Award, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, and the Reading the West Book Award. Connors's writing has also appeared in Harper's, n+1, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He lives in New Mexico.

Reviews
"Combin[ing] lyricism with dark humor to draw lines between grief and the uncanny... Connors' story [is] told with harrowing and fierce prose." "Affecting... Sharply funny... [Told with] subtle, evocative prose and depth of feeling." "Find room on your bookshelf next to Wallace Stegner and Norman Maclean; Philip Connors is here to stay." -- Alexandra Fuller "Philip Connors probably had to write All the Wrong Places for his own peace of mind; but in the process, he has given all readers a gift. As this sparklingly well-written memoir bores deeper toward the heart of something that cannot be understood, it keeps getting impossibly better, becoming that much more absorbing, that much more tender, more thoughtful, wry, and heartfelt. This is a marvelous book." -- Charles Bock "In this story of a dark, and at times darkly funny, decade of the soul, Philip Connors doesn't so much set out to solve the mystery of his brother's suicide as struggle to escape its gravitational field-struggle and fail, wretchedly at times, in life if not on the page. On the page, he has salvaged a memoir of great honesty and artistry from the aftermath of grief." -- Donovan Hohn "Philip Connors possesses a quietly fierce and mesmerizing prose style, a skeptical and witty mind, a huge heart, and a haunted soul. Add it all up and you have one of the best younger writers in America. The story of All the Wrong Places is a moving one, but it's Connors's artistry that makes it transcendent." -- Sam Lipsyte "Philip Connors is one hell of a storyteller." -- Sean Wilsey



Book Information
ISBN 9780393088762
Author Philip Connors
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 409g
Dimensions(mm) 218mm * 150mm * 25mm