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All the Wrong Places : a Life Lost and Found by Connors, Philip is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.
What is All the Wrong Places : a Life Lost and Found about?
The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years of flight. 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 hed 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
Who reads All the Wrong Places : a Life Lost and Found?
It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.
Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Connors, Philip
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393088762
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, History
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (327 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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