The Spectator Bird
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: Wallace Stegner
Narrated By: Edward Herrmann
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: September 2009
Duration: 7 hours 54 minutes
Summary:
Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, 'killing time before 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. But a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he had taken years before. The memories of that trip to his mother's birthplace move through layers of time and meaning, and reveal that Joe Allston isn't quite spectator enough.
