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Title: The City of Trembling Leaves (Western Literature Series) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Robert Laxalt ISBN: 0-87417-180-6 Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Reno, Nevada Resident's Review
Comment: While a resident of Reno, NV (1971-1980), I read the "City of Trembling Leaves" The book is a wonderfully nostalgic record of Reno, Nevada and the surrounding mountain and desert environs during the period of time that Clark lived there (i.e. 1920-1940's).

The author paints a colorful and accurate description of the "Biggest Little City in the World" when it actually fit that definition. Today, Reno is a rapidly expanding, land-gobbling monster of massive traffic jams, casinos, commercial strips, malls and ticky-tacky,cluttered housing developments much like Las Vegas (which is nothing more than another Los Angeles with slot machines).

I have lost my original copy, but am buying the new edition so that I can once again enjoy the life of a young, callow fellow and his friends growing up in a beautiful, small, friendly western town during simpler times.

Rating: 4
Summary: A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel
Comment: Having grown up around Reno, Nevada, I have a built-in bias toward this book, despite the fact that it is an example of a treacly genre (the obligatory semi-autobiographical novel) that most authors wisely leave in manuscript in their desk drawers. However, Clark is a powerful writer (see "The Track of the Cat" and "The Ox-Bow Incident") and he does a very good job of evoking time and place, especially the 20's and 30's, which are written as Fitzgerald might have done if Gatsby had grown up in Reno. The latter part of the book contains descriptions of artistic troubled souls loose in the American West that will be familiar to readers of the novels of the Beat Generation (Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums" comes to mind). There is also a Steinbeckian flavor to the book, especially the relationships, possibly because they are etched against that larger-than-life Western sky.

Rating: 4
Summary: Reviwed By me
Comment: This book is a refeince to the people in the ceative field of art wethere by music or art I think that Walter was showing the toment and agony of what the artistic people go though. Most of the world is in the mathmatical world; it is reffesing to read a book that discribes the artistic world. (I am a runner, and I enjoyed the track phase that he went through.)

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