num_pages: 345
description: Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner's National Book Award-winning 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 Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and sex; and Marian Catlin, an attractive young woman whose otherworldly innocence is far more appealing—and far more dangerous.
language: English
title: All the Little Live Things
titlecomplete: All the Little Live Things
characters: Julie LoPresti, Joe Allston, Lucio LoPresti, Tom Weld, Fran LoPresti, John Catlin, Debby Catlin, Dave Weld, Marian Catlin, Jim Peck, Ruth Allston
genres: Fiction, American, Book Club, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 3794
places: California
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: California Book Award
category: Fiction (Silver)
publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr