All the Little Live Things

Name: All the Little Live Things
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Wallace Stegner
ISBN: 9781441736444

Author: Wallace Stegner

Narrator: Edward Herrmann

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 05/11/2010

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Joe Allston, the retired literary agent in Stegners National Book Awardwinning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has its serpents: Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and sex, and Marian Catlin, an attractive young woman whose otherwordly innocence is far more appealingand far more dangerous.

About Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) wrote many books of fiction and nonfiction, including Crossing to Safety and the National Book Award–winning The Spectator Bird. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candi

Have you ever met someone whose zest for life is so clear and palpable that it’s nearly contagious? A person who loves so much and wants to share that love with one and all? Not necessarily the super annoying idealist type, but one who tries to understand everything and just IS. His or her existence......more

Goodreads review by Jaline

Once again, Wallace Stegner’s beautiful, descriptive prose drew me in to this novel from the beginning. It was like a lovely walk in a forest, with streams, birds singing, and maybe a waterfall. Then, just when I was completely soothed into the atmosphere, it was like a rock fell from beside the wat......more

Goodreads review by Barbara

"Sympathy I have failed in, stoicism I have barely passed. But I have made straight A in irony - that curse, the evasion, that armor, that way of staying safe while seeming wise." Joe Allston, the narrator of All the Little Live Things, is often introspective as shown in the above quote. Joe is frequ......more