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benjiox 's review for:
The Spectator Bird
by Wallace Stegner
"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."
I'm not going to waffle on about this one - *cue cheers at the back* - because I'm rather ill at the moment and not in any kind of mood to write an exhaustive - and probably exhausting - review.
However, what I will say is that Wallace Stegner is rapidly becoming one of my favourite authors - and I can say that with confidence after reading just two of his books. Crossing to Safety was one of my favourite reads of 2016 and although The Spectator Bird doesn't quite hit that book's lofty heights, I very much enjoyed it.
Stegner is absolutely wonderful at exploring friendship and memory, love and loss - not to mention all the subtleties of emotion and feeling that go in-between. His prose is poetic and affecting, and it's amazing how a story that seems so simple can have so many layers and pack such an emotional punch. It was a delightful little read.
I can't wait to explore the rest of Stegner's oeuvre - maybe Angle of Repose next?
I'm not going to waffle on about this one - *cue cheers at the back* - because I'm rather ill at the moment and not in any kind of mood to write an exhaustive - and probably exhausting - review.
However, what I will say is that Wallace Stegner is rapidly becoming one of my favourite authors - and I can say that with confidence after reading just two of his books. Crossing to Safety was one of my favourite reads of 2016 and although The Spectator Bird doesn't quite hit that book's lofty heights, I very much enjoyed it.
Stegner is absolutely wonderful at exploring friendship and memory, love and loss - not to mention all the subtleties of emotion and feeling that go in-between. His prose is poetic and affecting, and it's amazing how a story that seems so simple can have so many layers and pack such an emotional punch. It was a delightful little read.
I can't wait to explore the rest of Stegner's oeuvre - maybe Angle of Repose next?