The Spectator Bird


Edition: US - Paperback / softback
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English Age Adult - Adult
224 pages 5.19 x 7.97 x 0.62 in
Approx. weight: 0.5 lb
Publication date: 21 Mar,2017
Barcode: 9780525431879 Vintage

More books in English for Age Adult - Adult
  • Fiction: general and literary
  • Family life fiction
  • Narrative theme: Interior life

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By: Wallace Stegner  
This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West.
 
Joe Allston is a cantankerous, retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "just killing time until time gets around to killing me." His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, has not been his choice. He has passed through life as a spectator, before retreating to the woods of California in the 1970s with only his wife, Ruth, by his side. When an unexpected postcard from a long-lost friend arrives, Allston returns to the journals of a trip he has taken years before, a journey to his mother's birth­place where he once sought a link with his past. Uncovering this history floods Allston with memories, both grotesque and poignant, and finally vindicates him of his past and lays bare that Joe Allston has never been quite spectator enough.

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