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May 3, 2017 · A River Runs through It and Other Stories. Norman MacLean. University of Chicago Press, May 3, 2017 - Fiction - 262 pages. The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the ...
Norman Maclean. Designed and illustrated by Barry Moser. From its first magnificent sentence, “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing”, to the last, “I am haunted by waters”, A River Runs through It is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean’s childhood experiences, A River Runs through It has ...
Throughout A River Runs Through It, Norman contrasts this primeval, natural quality of the area to its more industrialized, modern status today, as national culture has become increasingly standardized and much of Montana has become known even to outsiders. In the summer of 1937, when much of the book takes place, towns like Wolf Creek and even ...
Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of A River Runs Through It that he is “haunted by waters,” so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the 20th century.
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition With a New Foreword by Annie Proulx ©1976, 2001, 239 pages, 10 halftones Cloth $22.00 ISBN: 9780226500720 Paper $12.00 ISBN: 9780226500669. For information on purchasing the book—from bookstores or here online—please go to the webpage for A River Runs Through It.
Elegantly redesigned, A River Runs through It includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award-winning 1992 film adaptation of River. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with ...
A River Runs through It and Other Stories. Norman Maclean (1902–90), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in and around Missoula, Montana, and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service before beginning his academic career. He was the William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the ...
