It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture-for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art- A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights.īased 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. Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. 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).
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