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The Spectator Bird

Wallace Stegner, Jane Smiley

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Retired agent grapples with life's existential ennui.

If you've ever felt like life is passing you by or you're watching from the sidelines, "The Spectator Bird" by Wallace Stegner could speak directly to you. Stegner's prose weaves through past and present, offering a profound look at the search for meaning in a seemingly disconnected life. It's for anyone who appreciates introspective journeys and the elegance of contemplative storytelling.

  • National Book Award for Fiction (1977)
  • California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (1976)
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The Spectator Bird

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ISBN: 9780143105794
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date of Publication: 2010-07-27
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.99
(rated by 8245 readers)

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From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, his National Book Award-winning novel. 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.
 

Retired agent grapples with life's existential ennui.

If you've ever felt like life is passing you by or you're watching from the sidelines, "The Spectator Bird" by Wallace Stegner could speak directly to you. Stegner's prose weaves through past and present, offering a profound look at the search for meaning in a seemingly disconnected life. It's for anyone who appreciates introspective journeys and the elegance of contemplative storytelling.

  • National Book Award for Fiction (1977)
  • California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (1976)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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