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Title	:	A River Runs Through it and Other Stories
Author	:	Norman Maclean
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	25th Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 217 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2001 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Classics. Literature. Environment. Nature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Westerns

A River Runs Through it and Other Stories Paperback | Pages: 217 pages

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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 twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx.

Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father.

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Original Title:	A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
ISBN:	0226500667 (ISBN13: 9780226500669)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Missoula, Montana(United States)

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5 stars for the title novella; 3 stars for the other two stories.It's been over twenty-five years since Robert Redford turned the title story in this collection into a film that starred the young rising actor, Brad Pitt. The movie also starred the canyons and rivers and fish of Montana: But I was moved not only by Brad and the scenery, but also the poetic narration, which frequently quoted the title story:Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still

There is a rawness to the stories that Norman Maclean tells in this collection. He lived the stories 30 or 40 years before he wrote them into this book. His writing is poetry, harsh and spare. It reminds me a little bit of Hemingway but with a more refined sense of place. Hemingway seemed to be searching for something or trying to find himself in the places he traveled. Maclean knew who he was and where he was. And where he was is the Montana that many people in other parts of this country think

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself. A re-read of a book full of deep currents. Fly fishing with its beauty and artistry and geometry is described so appealingly, you want to shop online for a rod. The narrator's brother Paul, a man both beautiful and prodigal is the focus. The story is poignant and sad. The other two stories are passable; they lack the punch of the first.

I cannot believe the excellence of the writing. I am totally blown over. I thought I would read the first novella, the one referred to in the title, and then put the book aside. This was impossible. I had to have more.Containing: * A River Runs Through It--5 stars without a doubt.*Logging and Pimping and Your Pal, Jim--4 stars*USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky--5 starsThe first and the third are semi-autobiographical novellas.Norman Maclean (1902-1990) began writing fiction

In 1992 my wife and I and my parents saw a new movie directed by Robert Redford. A River Runs Through It had masterful and beautiful cinematography and starred a young and not-yet-famous Brad Pitt. An early scene in the movie depicts a young child of about 5 or 6 who stubbornly refuses to eat his oatmeal -- spending an entire night sitting in his chair with his cold oatmeal on the table before him. This boy grows up to be the character portrayed by Brad Pitt who continues in his head-strong and

One of the greatest failures of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction was the prize committee's decision not to award any prize in 1977. A jury of writers had read the year's best fiction and had presented Maclean's novella to the prize committee (the committee who votes on every prize) as their winner. The prize committee was unable to come to a majority decision and when this happens they simply don't award the prize that year. It's happened a few times, the most recent in 2013, but it's that 1977

Eh, this wasn't too bad, but I don't think it was really for me and it drug quite a bit in a lot of places. I would have cut down considerably, but I think that's personal taste. I can dig fiction in the trees, and even manly man stuff now and again, but this was just too much for me where that seemed to be the sole point. I needed something to get me over those sections and instead it seemed to be much of the reason for the stories at all. I just didn't dig it that much.