

A Song for the River
Author: Philip Connors
Narrator: Adam Verner
Unabridged: 6 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/28/2018
Author: Philip Connors
Narrator: Adam Verner
Unabridged: 6 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 08/28/2018
Philip Connors was born in Iowa, grew up on a farm in Minnesota, and studied journalism at the University of Montana. Beginning in 1999 he worked at the Wall Street Journal, mostly as an editor on the leisure and arts page. In 2002 he left New York to become a fire lookout in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, where he has spent every summer since. That experience became the subject of his first book, the multiaward–winning Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout. His second book, All the Wrong Places, a memoir of life in the shadow of his brother’s suicide, was published in 2015 and selected as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of the year by Kirkus Reviews. He lives in the Mexican-American borderlands.
Adam Verner is a stage, film, television, and voice actor and an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. He holds a BS in theater arts from Bradley University and an MFA from Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
“In the style of Annie Dillard, Anne LaBastille, and Aldo Leopold, Connors interlaces all of these stories into a poignant plea for change—of our attitudes toward nature as well as to all forms of life.” Library Journal (starred review)
“Beautifully examines themes of fire and water, life and death, and wonder and grief…[with] sumptuous descriptions of the Gila’s natural wonder…This powerful work belongs with the classics of the nature writing genre and is equally important as a rumination on living and dying.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A heartfelt, well-written volume of vignettes and reflections of a man who—much like his long lineage of fire lookout forebears—gladly chooses to escape civilization for the natural world.” Kirkus Reviews
“[Connors’] writing is pure, exact, compassionate, and often elegiac…I loved this book." Benjamin Alire Sáenz, PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author
“A Song for the River is nothing short of spectacular…Beautifully nuanced and written in masterful prose, this is a necessary read.” Alfredo Corchado, author of Midnight in Mexico
“A story of love and loss along the sacred waters of the Gila river, in the heart of the Gila wilderness…The book was a page-turner for me, lyrically paced and a real pleasure to read.” Doug Peacock, author of Grizzly Years