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Literary agent Joe Allston, the central character of Stegner's novel "All the Little Live Things", is now retired and, 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 an old friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he and his wife 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.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Spectator Bird
• Author: Wallace Stegner
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics,
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780141392325
• ISBN: 0141392320
• ID: 02061239
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 168 g
• Dimensions: 140 × 198 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. April 2013

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