All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found
All the Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found
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W. W. Norton
Annotation: The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years before finding solace in the wilderness.
Genre: [Biographies]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #209044
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Copyright Date: 2015
Edition Date: 2015 Release Date: 02/16/15
ISBN: 0-393-08876-6
ISBN 13: 978-0-393-08876-2
Dewey: 921
Language: English
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Reading Level: 7.0
Interest Level: 9+

In his debut 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: the years he spent reeling in the wake of a family tragedy. 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 City and a future unfolding exactly as he'd hoped. Then one 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 humor of a life unmoored by loss. Beginning with the otherworldly beauty of a hot-air-balloon ride over the skies of Albuquerque and ending in the wilderness of the American borderlands, this is the story of a man paying tribute to the dead by unconsciously willing himself into all the wrong places, whether at the copy desk of the Wall Street Journal, the gritty streets of Bed-Stuy in the 1990s, or the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. With ruthless clarity and a keen sense of the absurd, Connors slowly unmasks the truth about his brother and himself, to devastating effect. Like Cheryl Strayed's Wild, this is a powerful look back at wayward years--and a redemptive story about finding one's rightful home in the world.


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