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020			_a
082	0		_aFIC STE
100	1		_aStegner, Wallace
245	1	4	_aThe spectator bird _c/ Wallace Stegner
260			_aGarden City, New York _b: Doubleday and Company _c, c1976.
300			_a214 p.
520	3		_aJoe 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 trip he 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. "Elegant and entertaining . . . Every scene [is] adroitly staged and each effect precisely acomplished." -The Atlantic
650			_aAmericans _x-Travel _z-Denmark _v--Fiction
650		4	_aOlder men _x-California _z-Fiction
650			_aDanish Americans _v--Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c260893 _d260893