The Spectator Bird is a 1976 novel by Wallace Stegner. It won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1977.The book tells the story of retired literary agent Joe Allston, who receives a postcard from an old friend, a Danish countess named Astrid. Joe initially hides the postcard from his wife, Ruth. However, he soon reveals to her not only its existence but that of a diary Joe kept twenty years before, when Joe and Ruth met Astrid while visiting Denmark.
| Attributes | Values |
|---|---|
| rdfs:comment |
|
| is award of |