The City Of Trembling Leaves
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
University of Nevada Press, 2012
eISBN: 978-1-64779-130-8 | Paper: 978-0-87417-180-8
Library of Congress Classification PS3505.L376C5 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.52
eISBN: 978-1-64779-130-8 | Paper: 978-0-87417-180-8
Library of Congress Classification PS3505.L376C5 1991
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.52
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The City of Trembling Leaves by Walter Van Tilburg Clark was first published in 1945 by Random House and reprinted by the University of Nevada Press in paperback in 1991 with a new foreword by Robert Laxalt.
Clark’s novel broke new ground in his telling of the story of the rites of passage of a boy, Tim Hazard, into adulthood in the setting of the Western town of Reno, Nevada. The descriptions of Reno’s landscape and the realistic characters depict the role of nature during the tumultuous stages of adolescence and the potential risk of obstruction and loss in the attainment of maturity.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1909, Walter Van Tilburg Clark ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures in the twentieth century, as well as a leading interpreter of the American West. With such highly acclaimed novels as The Ox-Bow Incident, The Track of the Cat, and The City of Trembling Leaves, Clark is known as a writer of national and international distinction. Walter Van Tilburg Clark died in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1971.
REVIEWS
"A superbly written book that compares favorably with Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward Angel." -- Library Journal
"Here is a book that is American in all its implications. It is big, full of beauty and hope." -- Boston Globe
"The City of Trembling Leaves has something of the quality of a long and wonderful day out of doors..." -- Saturday Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Book One
I. Mostly About Lucy, the Golden Tart, But Also About Gladys, the Skull, the Trinity of Heroes and the Influence of Mrs. Boone
II. About the Influence of the Divine Mary, and About Kisses and Prayers
III. About Divine Mary, and the Pagtm Goddess Who Taught Art, and Jacob the Terrible Fiddler
IV. Presenting Harold, the Panderer, and Dorothy, the Dangerous Lorelei
V. About the Small Things Which Can Create and Maintain a Major Alliance, and About the Virgin Mary of Pyramid Lake and Willis the Worldly
VI. About a Totem Tortoise and a City of Stmd
VII. About an Important Horse Called Sunday Wind
VIII. About the Ceremony of Manhood Which Prepared Timothy Hazard for His Great Single Love
IX. About the Possible Significance of a Small Aspen as an Intermediary
X. In Which Tim Feels the Touch of the Quaking Aspen
XI. About the Many Early Lives of Timothy Hazard
XII. In Which Tim Becomes a Pack of Hounds in the Enchanted Wilderness
XIII. But Flushes Fish
XIV. In Which Wingfield Park Becomes the Center of the Universe, and an Important Tennis Match Is Played Which Goes on for Years
XV. In Which Mr. Hazard Proves a Poet, and Begets, in His Own Way, the Enduring Image of the Hounds in the Wilderness,and in Which Tim Is Shown ina Musical Practice of Great Importance
XVI. About the Seeming Simplicity of Reaching the Bottom at Lake Tahoe; an Anticipatory Theme
XVII. Also About the Difficulty of Reaching the Bottom at Lake Tahoe, Including a Premonitory Glimpse of Young Mother Nature and of the Dark Years
XVIII. Beginning Revelations on a Raft in the Sky, or About Tristrtrm of the Tennis Courts, and How to Keep the Soul in the Body in One Simple Lesson
XIX. The Spring Running
XX. In Memoriam-Sunday Wind
XXI. Being Mostly Considerations of the Power of tbe Nuclear
XXII. About Telephones and Old Houses
XXIII. More About Marjory, Who Didn't Know What She Wanted, But Wanted It Terribly
XXIV. About the Difficulty of Offering Homage to an Immortal Incarnate
XXV. False Spring
XXVI. The Economy of tbe Silver Mill
XXVII. About Such Lessons in Time as the Revival of the Neglected Friends, the Victory of the Lost Tournament, the Immortal Flivver and the Incident of the Misguided Geese
XXVIII. The History of Mankind According to the Poplars of Bowers' Mansion
XXIX. Oh, My Brother, My Brother
XXX. The Token of the Eternal and the Touch of the Moribund
XXXI. The Disappearance of the Secret Isles
XXXII. The Fall of the House of Hazard
Book Two
XXXIII. The Dark Age of Timothy Hazard, an Interlude Including the Tokens of the Waste Land, the Empty City, the White Horse and the Paper Prayer, But Also Including the Sanctuary of the Peavine Quarter
XXXIV. Prelude to the Mountain
XXXV. The Mountain
XXXVI. About Certain Signs of Altitude Hangover, and the Accidental Reunion of the Houses of Hazard and Turner
XXXVII. About Mr. Atley, Who Was Better Than a Cash Register, Mr. Breese, Who Prayed to Grand Pianos, and the Heckling of Henry Adams, with Other Items Which May Have Added to the Burden of Mary Turner
XXXVII. In Which the Lives of Timothy Hazard and Lawrence Black Become Practically One, Helen Assumes a Hundred Forms, and Jeremiah Goes into the Desert
XXXIX. In Which the Waters Without Time Are Viewed from a Ccrve
XL. And Lawrence Becomes a Pilgrim to the Nameless Peace
XLI. About the Seven Lost Symphonies of T. Hazard, the Life of Lawrence Black on Paper, and the Quiet That Was in Mary's Room
XLII. In Which Knute Fenderson Demolishes Yesterday and the Dangerous Quiet
XLIII. Wherein Timothy Hazard Sets Out for the Wide World of Carmel, California, Having Heard for a Moment the Bird in the Inmost Thicket
XLIV. How Tim Came into Carmel, California, and Was Warned by the Man at the Crossing
XLV. How Knute Took Parnassus by Storm, and About the Inner Order in the House of Quest
XLVI. In Which Tim Hazard Prolongs His Exile from the City of Trembling Lecrves, and Begins a Double Life as a Musician
XLVII. How the Double Life Was Explained by the Hands of Teddy Quest
XLVIII. The Life of Knute Fenderson, by Stephen Granger
XLIX. The History of the Hanging Tree, by Stephen Granger
L. The Microcosm of Stephen Granger
LI. Traces in the Heart of the Wilderness
LII. His Heart with the Sun-A Very Short Biography of Eileen Connor
LIII. The Stone Woman
LIV. In Which the Revelation of the Stone Woman Is Considered, and Mary Turner Receives a New Kind of Letter
LV. Family Reunion
LVI. In Which Tim Hazard Receives a Visitor at Dawn, and Hears aFar Cry
LVII. In Which Tim Hazard Is Becalmed in the Sargasso Sea of Beverly Hills
LVIII. In Which Tim Watches His Friend Lawrence Swimming Wearily in Small Circles in the Sargasso Sea
LIX. In Which the Perturbed Spirit of Ancient Mariner Black Is Encountered Lingering Over the Sargasso Sea, and Mariner Hazard Catches a Wind at Dawn
LX. The Tracks of the Turtle
LXI. The Well
LXII. In the Time of Mountains
LXIII. An Evening with the Arts at Luigi's
LXIV. In Which Tim Hazard, at Wadsworth, Which Is the Junction of Roads to Reno and to Pyramid, Is Introduced to the Grocer from Salt Lake City
LXV. In Which the Circle Closes
Postlude
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