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Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life. Then a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he took to his mother's birthplace to search for his roots; memories of... read more
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Setting & Locations edit
- Denmark
- America
- Copenhagen
- Bregninge
- New York
- Ellebacken
- Sweden
- Africa
- Orebyslot
- Knippelsbro
- California
First Sentence edit
On a February morning, when a weather front is moving in off the Pacific but has not quite arrived, and the winds are changeable and gusty and clouds drive over and an occasional flurry of fine rain darkens the terrace bricks, this place conforms to none of the cliches about California with which they advertise the Sunshine Cities for the Sunset Years.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Wallace Stegner (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1976
ISBN: 0385078900
Page Count: 214
Publisher: Doubleday
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1976
ISBN: 0385078900
Page Count: 214
Awards edit
- National Book Award (1977: Fiction)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.52
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