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The Spectator Bird

✍ Scribed by Stegner, Wallace

Book ID
108736159
Publisher
Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Year
1977
Tongue
English
Weight
287 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781101042595

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✦ Synopsis

Joe Allston is a 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, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator.

A postcard from a friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he had taken years before, a journey to his mother's birthplace, where he'd sought a link with the past. The memories of that trip, both grotesque and poignant, move through layers of time and meaning, and reveal that Joe Allston isn't quite spectator enough.

**Winner of the 1977 National Book Award**

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