bobbo49 's review for:

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner

5.0

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Ah, how I do love Stegner! Although there is an unexpected twist toward the end of this story, the book is simply a beautiful and evocative account of a married couple late in life, infused with Stegner's passion and his brilliant insights of life, love and relationships (for example, "He says that when asked if he feels like an old man, he replies that he does not, he feels like a young man with something the matter with him." or "Ah, the complexity of being married to a woman you dearly love and automatically resist. . . . Martial is the anagram for marital.") Highly recommended.