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The Spectator Bird
By
Wallace Stegner
Published in 1990
Featured book published by Penguin
Paperback: 224 pages
ISBN: 0140139400
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Joe Allston, a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, believes he has been a mere spectator through life. But when he rereads the journals of a trip he took to his mother's birthplace to search for his roots, he realizes that he is not quite spectator enough. Winner of the National Book Award.
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About Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner was born on February 18, 1909, in Lake Mills, Iowa. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for Angle of Repose and the National Book Award in 1977 for The Spectator Bird. Three of his short stories stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.
Long respected as a teacher of writing, Mr. Stegner taught at universities including Wisconsin, Harvard, and for many years, Stanford, where he founded and directed the writing program that has had a profound effect upon contemporary American fiction. He was twice a Guggenheim Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment
for the Humanities. He was a member of the National Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Selected Works by Wallace Stegner
- Remembering Laughter
- The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Joe Hill
- All the Little Live Things
- A Shooting Star
- The Spectator Bird
- Recapitulation
- Crossing to Safety
- Beyond the Hundredth Meridian
- Angle of Repose
- Wolf Willow
- Sound of Mountain Water
- The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Vernard DeVoto
- Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West
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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 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 specatator enough.
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