Clark Walter van Tilburg Clark

City Of Trembling Leaves (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Seitenzahl: 712
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781647791308
• Artikelnr.: 72464772

Autorenporträt

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.