Every April, Philip Connors leaves behind civilization–his wife, bartending job and small-town life in New Mexico–to work as a fire lookout. In Fire Season he captures all of the beauty and enchantment of spending a summer in solitude, in a lookout perched high above the Gila Wilderness, while sparing the reader any sense of monotony …
“This first-time author has written a vivid account of his time as a fire lookout in a very remote section of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. A bartender in Manhattan during most of the year, come the start of fire season Connors is back at his post at his lookout, escaping the madness …
For ten years, Portland author Philip Connors has been working as a fire lookout for the Forest Service in New Mexico. He lives alone in a cabin on a 10,000-foot peak. His office is a lookout tower, where searches for small plumes of smoke that could be 100 miles away. Ecco will publish his memoir, Fire …
