The Spectator Bird

Stegner, Wallace Earle

Genre: books4me > Fiction > Fiction

Format: Book - Paperback

Released: Tue 27 Jul 2010

Catalogue Number: 0008674540

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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 birthA-place 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.

Details:

Introduced By: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Series: Penguin Classics
Editions: Reprint
Subject Development: Fiction - Literary
Geographic Designator: United States
Academic Level: General Adult
Depth (m): 0.013
Dewey: 813 / .52
Height (m): 0.197
Pages: 204
Place Of Publication: United States
Published Date: Tue 27 Jul 2010
Weight (g): 181
Width (m): 0.127

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