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What is All the Wrong Places about?

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 T

Who reads All the Wrong Places?

Author

Connors, Philip

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393246483

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.1 / 5 (216 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14