Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout - Couverture souple

Connors, Philip

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061859370 ISBN 13 : 9780061859373

Editeur : Ecco, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Connors Philip

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“[A] lyrical, masterly debut from a first-class writer.” (Men's Journal)

“[A] finely, wryly, at times poetically wrought first book. . . . Connors has succeeded in weaving many stories into one [and has found] a voice and new literary life in arid terrain where I, for one, had suspected there was little new life to be found.” (New York Times Book Review)

“A fine prose stylist with a splendid eye for detail, Connors allows his readers to see the natural beauty he witnesses. . . . All lovers of nature will understand the allure and wonder that Connors so gracefully describes.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“This is a book for all nature lovers, and more importantly, those who fail to see the beauty of the natural world. Connors’ prose is so mesmerizing, so enthralling, that even the most committed city dweller will be tempted to head for a remote, quiet destination.” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

“[T]his is modern nature writing at its very finest.” (Daily Beast)

“[R]eading this book is like taking a vacation in beautiful scenery with an observant and clever guide. So relax and enjoy.” (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers)

“Compelling and introspective, Fire Season lingers like a good poem.” (New Mexico Magazine)

“Philip Connors is the typical run-of-the-mill U.S. Forest Service employee. Except, you know, he can write like hell. . . . This book is great, like Norman-Maclean-’Young-Men-and-Fire’ great.” (Mountain Gazette)

“[A] compelling study of isolation, wildness, and ‘a vocation in its twilight’.” (The New Yorker)

“[A] quietly moving love letter to a singular place. By the last page, I wanted to hike up to the tower, sip some whiskey with him and just look.” (Los Angeles Times)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.”
—J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar

“[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.”
—Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air

Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford’s bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ecco
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0061859370
• ISBN 13: 9780061859373
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272