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The Spectator Bird. By Wallace Stegner. REQUEST DISCUSSION QUESTIONS. This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West.
1 sty 2001 · The Spectator Bird is a short novel by Wallace Stegner that won the National Book Award in 1977. A profound novel with a much simpler story than Angle of Repose. There are only four characters of any importance in The Spectator Bird and one could make a case that only three are essential.
21 mar 2017 · This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West.
26 cze 2016 · Is there a name for books structured as backward explorations -- books like Moon Tiger, say, or Old Filth, or Stegner's Angle of Repose or The Spectator Bird, framed by aged protagonists' desire (part nostalgic, part existential) to understand the story of their own lives?
6 wrz 2010 · I didn't actually recommend the book, but I had mentioned it during a discussion of another book, and everyone said it sounded so interesting they wanted us to read it as a group. I've also recommended to this same f2F group, The Tortilla Curtain .
The Spectator Bird. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
21 maj 1976 · A bunch of ever-so-mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods.