The Spectator Bird Stegner WallacePaperback
The Spectator Bird Stegner WallacePaperback 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…
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The Spectator Bird Stegner WallacePaperback
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 job, trafficking the talent of others, has not been his choice. His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties.
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 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.