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The spectator bird / Wallace Stegner.
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 birth-place 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0385078900
- ISBN: 0140139400
- ISBN: 9780525431879
- ISBN: 052543187X
- Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, [1976]
- Copyright: ©1976
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- Vintage Books 2017 edition includes an introduction by Jane Smiley.
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