Wallace Stegner’s is one of the most beguiling voices of [the] era, and The female cuckoo drives the host bird from the nest by mimicking the call of the sparrow hawk and while it is away lays her egg. The Spectator Bird is just a beautiful and satisfying read which I plan to revisit in the future and which I plan to recommend to any intelligent readers. by Wallace Stegner Edward Herrmann Audiobook. The spectator bird This edition was published in 1979 by University of Nebraska Press in Lincoln. Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. The book tells the story of retired literary agent Joe Allston, who receives a postcard from an old friend, a Danish countess named Astrid. published by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y. Genre Fiction. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. About The Spectator Bird. Weekly magazine featuring the best British journalists, authors, critics and cartoonists, since 1828. Reprint of the ed. THE SPECTATOR BIRD (Book) : Stegner, Wallace : 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. To ensure this hatches before the host’s eggs, it is incubated inside the hen cuckoo for at least 24 hours before being laid. Print. Word Count: 251. The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner 5,954 ratings, 4.00 average rating, 691 reviews The Spectator Bird Quotes Showing 1-9 of 9 “Most things break, including hearts. 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. But when they get a postcard from a long-lost friend, they are forced to examine a trip they made to Denmark twenty years earlier after the death of their only child. Joe initially hides the postcard from his wife, Ruth. Another Stegner Masterpiece. Joe Allston and his wife, Ruth, live a comfortable life in retirement. The Spectator Bird is a 1976 novel by Wallace Stegner.It won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1977.. Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. The main character, Joe Allston, is seventy years old, living with his wife Ruth, and finds himself growing bored and bitter. The Spectator Bird. The Spectator Bird. This portrait of a husband and wife's marriage and a son's pursuit of his mother's memory is a literary masterpiece. Edition Notes "A Bison book." Stegner needs to be read more often. 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