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House fires / Connor Franta.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Atria Books, 2021Edition: First Atria Books hardcover editionDescription: xv, 287 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781982177713
  • 1982177713
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- A room full of mirrors -- Tulip -- An attempt to explain the unexplainable -- Saturated -- Small puncture wounds -- Low-hanging fruit -- Punchlines -- Everything or absolutely nothing at all -- Super nostalgia -- Longing -- The anatomy of a flower -- Claude Monet -- Buzzkill -- Floating, feeling, fading, falling -- Driveway -- Act natural -- Moments are a fiery combustion -- Pearls -- Easy as it goes -- Lucky stars -- Loud sounds and where they come from -- Hidden in plain sight -- A higher power -- Pushing up daisies.
Summary: "Humanitarian, entrepreneur, and content creator Connor Franta first captivated readers with A Work In Progress, ruminating on his Midwestern roots to his early start as a visionary and online thought-leader. He continued his soul-searching-through-a-broken-heart with Note to Self, challenging readers--and himself--to ponder the spectrum of humanity and their place within it. Now as Franta approaches thirty, life is no less confusing, but he finds this journey endlessly fascinating. Writing about confusion and clarity, loneliness and whirlwind romances, despair and elation--and everything in between--Franta invites readers back into the intimacy of his mind. House Fires magnifies a young man's emotional warfare with his past, the daze of wandering through modern times in search of purpose, and the electricity flying from tomorrow's potential"--publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography FRANTA, C. F836 Available 33111010744304
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The New York Times bestselling author of A Work in Progress and Note to Self moves fully into adulthood with his illuminating, soulful, bleeding collection of narrative, poetry, and original film photography.

Humanitarian, entrepreneur, and content creator Connor Franta first captivated readers with A Work In Progress , ruminating on his Midwestern roots to his early start as a visionary and online thought-leader . He continued his soul-searching-through-a-broken-heart with Note to Self, challenging readers--and himself--to ponder the spectrum of humanity and their place within it.

Now as Franta approaches thirty, life is no less confusing, but he finds this journey endlessly fascinating. Writing about confusion and clarity, loneliness and whirlwind romances, despair and elation--and everything in between--Franta invites readers back into the intimacy of his mind.

House Fires magnifies a young man's emotional warfare with his past, the daze of wandering through modern times in search of purpose, and the electricity flying from tomorrow's potential.

"Humanitarian, entrepreneur, and content creator Connor Franta first captivated readers with A Work In Progress, ruminating on his Midwestern roots to his early start as a visionary and online thought-leader. He continued his soul-searching-through-a-broken-heart with Note to Self, challenging readers--and himself--to ponder the spectrum of humanity and their place within it. Now as Franta approaches thirty, life is no less confusing, but he finds this journey endlessly fascinating. Writing about confusion and clarity, loneliness and whirlwind romances, despair and elation--and everything in between--Franta invites readers back into the intimacy of his mind. House Fires magnifies a young man's emotional warfare with his past, the daze of wandering through modern times in search of purpose, and the electricity flying from tomorrow's potential"--publisher.

Introduction -- A room full of mirrors -- Tulip -- An attempt to explain the unexplainable -- Saturated -- Small puncture wounds -- Low-hanging fruit -- Punchlines -- Everything or absolutely nothing at all -- Super nostalgia -- Longing -- The anatomy of a flower -- Claude Monet -- Buzzkill -- Floating, feeling, fading, falling -- Driveway -- Act natural -- Moments are a fiery combustion -- Pearls -- Easy as it goes -- Lucky stars -- Loud sounds and where they come from -- Hidden in plain sight -- A higher power -- Pushing up daisies.

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