Word: catting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Track Of The Cat, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Random House...
...TRACK OF THE CAT (404 pp.)- Walter Van Tilburg Clark-Random House...
...Track of the Cat, Clark again busies himself with the question of evil, but he has switched from the cool clarity of Ox-Bow to a naive, sometimes murky symbolism that gets in the way of his essentially simple yarn. Again the scene...
Curt goes after the panther first, bullies gentle Arthur into going along. Miles from the ranch house, they find the tracks of an enormous cat. When Curt goes back to get supplies for the pursuit, daydreaming Arthur is jumped by the panther and killed. Gnawed by guilt, Curt sends back his brother's body lashed to a horse, takes off on foot to track down the cat...
...that Novelist Clark's meager story structure is too fragile to bear. What happens out on the snow-covered range is more successful and easily the most exciting part of the book. In a first-rate section of more than 100 pages, Curt's pursuit of the cat becomes a thriller with symbolic moral overtones that will remind some readers of Moby Dick. The cunning of the cat, the cold, the lack of food, the growing image in Curt's mind of the panther as the embodiment of sinister evil and vengefulness, change the hunter into...