Fire Season

<p><em>Fire Season</em> both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau--and I loved it.<br />--J.R. Moehringer author of <em>The Tender Bar</em></p><p>[Connors's] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing restorative reading.<br />--Walter Kirn author of <em>Up in the Air</em></p><p>Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction and his remarkable debut <em>Fire Season</em> 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 <em>Fire Season</em> is a marvel of a book as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford's bestselling <em>Shop Class as Soulcraft</em> 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.<br /></p>