The Spectator Bird
10 best books like The Spectator Bird (Wallace Stegner): The Overstory, Chances Are..., The Dutch House, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Dog Soldiers, Kaaterskill Falls, The Call, Anne Sexton: A Biography, The Magic Barrel, Travel Light, Move Fast
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from...
| Author | Richard Russo |
| ISBN | 1101947748 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship
One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year-old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever...
| Author | Ann Patchett |
| ISBN | 0062963678 |
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant...
| Author | Katherine Anne Porter |
| ISBN | 0156188767 |
A very skilled short story writer, Katherine Anne Porter brings to life her characters and, primarily through character development, takes you deep into their world with a minimum of words. Not once did I feel that a story ended prematurely or that I wanted or expected more than I got.
She tackles...
| Author | Robert Stone |
| ISBN | 0395860253 |
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America...
| Author | Allegra Goodman |
| ISBN | 0385323905 |
In the summer of '76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August.
Elizabeth Shulman, a devout follower of Rav Elijah Kirshner and the mother of five daughters,...
| Author | Yannick Murphy |
| ISBN | 0062023144 |
WHAT I WOULD RATE THIS BOOK IF GOODREADS WOULD LET ME: 2.5 stars.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STORY: Animal doctor stuff, human doctor stuff, family stuff, father-son stuff, hunting and swimming, and the occasional possible spaceship sighting.
WHAT I COULDN'T DECIDE WHILE READING IT: If the unusual...
| Author | Diane Wood Middlebrook |
| ISBN | 0679741828 |
Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the age of twenty-nine to keep from killing herself. She held on to language for dear life and somehow -- in spite of alcoholism and the mental illness that ultimately led her to suicide -- managed to create a body of work that won a Pulitzer Prize and that still sings to...
| Author | Bernard Malamud |
| ISBN | 0374525862 |
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Magic Barrel, has been recognized as a classic from the time it was published in 1959. The stories are set in New York and in Italy (where Malamud's alter ego, the struggling New York Jewish painter,...
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived
Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the...
