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Spectator Bird
Spectator Bird
Author: Wallace Stegner
Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life. Then a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he took to his mother's birthplace to search for his roots; memories of that journey reveal that he is not quite spectator eno...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780860430629
ISBN-10: 0860430626
Publication Date: 6/15/1977
Pages: 409
Edition: Large type edition
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Publisher: Imprint unknown
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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Reads like an autobiography but is fiction. The main story deals with an older man (and his wife) coping with the brutal realities of old age. The story within the story is a flashback - decades earlier - to a Denmark trip when they lived with a countess and slowly learned the bizarre secrets of her family.
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