The Spectator Bird

Wallace Stegner

Original title: The spectator bird

earliest edition we have, 1976 Penguin Books, 2010 204 pages

Penguin classics

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 tr...

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The Spectator Bird paperback · 2017 · Vintage · 224 pages · 9780525431879
Spectator Bird edition · 2013 · Penguin Books, Limited · 224 pages · 9780141392325
The spectator bird edition · 2010 · Penguin Books · 204 pages · 9780143105794
The Spectator Bird ebook · 2009 · Penguin USA, Inc. · 9781101035108
The spectator bird edition · 1990 · Penguin Books · 214 pages
The spectator bird edition · 1979 · University of Nebraska Press · 214 pages
The spectator bird edition · 1977 · G. K. Hall · 409 pages
The spectator bird edition · 1976 · Doubleday · 214 pages

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