{"product_id":"fire-season-field-notes-from-a-wilderness-lookout-9780061859373","title":"Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFire Season\u003c\/em\u003e both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau--and I loved it.\"\u003cbr\u003e--J.R. Moehringer, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tender Bar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Connors's] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Walter Kirn, author of \u003cem\u003eUp in the Air\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, \u003cem\u003eFire Season\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eFire Season\u003c\/em\u003e is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford's bestselling \u003cem\u003eShop Class as Soulcraft\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eConnors, Philip:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePhilip Connors has worked as a baker, a bartender, a house painter, a janitor, and an editor at the \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e. His essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003en+1\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eBest American Non-required Reading\u003c\/em\u003e anthology. He lives in New Mexico with his wife and their dog.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630302859538,"sku":"9780061859373","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ea11eb90-df5f-4e96-a820-3b7daae17c2c.jpg?v=1732748976","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fire-season-field-notes-from-a-wilderness-lookout-9780061859373","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}