The Spectator Bird - Softcover

Stegner, Wallace

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ISBN 10: 0803291078 ISBN 13: 9780803291072

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1979

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The life of literary agent Joe Alston is interrupted by a postcard that takes him back twenty years to postwar Denmark where a search for his mother's heritage had led to the uncovering of Nazi horrors

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Review:

"It is the autobiographical nature of Stegner''s work . . . that makes it so compelling. In every novel, the narrator has all the gifts of language, empathy, and philosophy, but he nonetheless can never free himself from the torments of the past."
-Jane Smiley, from the Introduction

"Elegant and entertaining . . . every scene [is] adroitly staged and each effect precisely accomplished."
-"The Atlantic"
"It is the autobiographical nature of Stegner's work . . . that makes it so compelling. In every novel, the narrator has all the gifts of language, empathy, and philosophy, but he nonetheless can never free himself from the torments of the past."
Jane Smiley, from the Introduction
"Elegant and entertaining . . . every scene [is] adroitly staged and each effect precisely accomplished."
" The Atlantic""

Wallace Stegner s is one of the most beguiling voices of [the] era, and The Spectator Bird is one of his most appealing works. Jane Smiley, from the introduction
A fabulously written account of regret, memory and the subtleties and challenges of a long successful marriage. Stegner deals with the dual threads of the novel with aplomb.... A thoughtful, crystalline book. Matthew Spencer, The Guardian
There are rivers undammed, desert vistas unspoiled and forests uncut in the wondrous West because of his pen. Timothy Egan, The New York Times"

"Wallace Stegner's is one of the most beguiling voices of [the] era, and The Spectator Bird is one of his most appealing works."--Jane Smiley, from the introduction
"A fabulously written account of regret, memory and the subtleties and challenges of a long successful marriage. Stegner deals with the dual threads of the novel with aplomb.... A thoughtful, crystalline book." --Matthew Spencer, The Guardian
"There are rivers undammed, desert vistas unspoiled and forests uncut in the wondrous West because of his pen." --Timothy Egan, The New York Times

-Wallace Stegner's is one of the most beguiling voices of [the] era, and The Spectator Bird is one of his most appealing works.---Jane Smiley, from the introduction
-A fabulously written account of regret, memory and the subtleties and challenges of a long successful marriage. Stegner deals with the dual threads of the novel with aplomb.... A thoughtful, crystalline book.- --Matthew Spencer, The Guardian
-There are rivers undammed, desert vistas unspoiled and forests uncut in the wondrous West because of his pen.- --Timothy Egan, The New York Times

About the Author:

Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) was the author of, among other novels, Remembering Laughter, 1937; The Big Rock Candy Mountain, 1943; Joe Hill, 1950; All the Little Live Things, 1967 (Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star, 1961; Angle of Repose, 1971 (Pulitzer Prize); The Spectator Bird, 1976 (National Book Award, 1977); Recapitulation, 1979; and Crossing to Safety, 1987. His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, 1954; Wolf Willow, 1963; The Sound of Mountain Water (essays), 1969; The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto, 1974; and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three of his short 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. His Collected Stories was published in 1990.

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