TY - SOUND AU - Stegner,Wallace Earle AU - Herrmann,Edward ED - Blackstone Audio, Inc. ED - Playaway Digital Audio. ED - Findaway World, LLC. TI - The spectator bird SN - 9781441724977 : AV - PS3537.T316 S6 2010d U1 - 813/.52 22 PY - 2010///], p2010 CY - [Solon, Ohio] PB - Playaway Digital Audio, [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC KW - Americans KW - Denmark KW - Fiction KW - Older men KW - Danish Americans KW - California KW - Domestic fiction KW - Audiobooks N1 - Title from Playaway label; Release date supplied by publisher; Previously released by Blackstone Audio, Inc., p2010; Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player; In container (21 x 13 x 3 cm.); One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback; Read by Edward Herrmann N2 - 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. A postcard from a friend causes him 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 ER -