A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Book description
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "It has trees in it." Forty years later, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of…
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2 authors picked A River Runs Through It and Other Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It’s funny, for one thing, but not merely funny.
“It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us,” Maclean writes, and here brotherhood, religion, and fly-fishing bleed into one another to comprise the river flowing through this stunning novella.
Wild Paul and his measured older brother Norman seem more friends than family, mostly because they choose one another. Meditative asides abound and delight, but the tender stuff concerns memory and acceptance and forgiveness, affirming Emily Dickinson’s adage: “The soul selects her own society.”
From Jonathan's list on books about men in love (who aren’t lovers).
Norman Maclean’s semi-autobiographical A River Runs Through It is an American classic set in Missoula, Montana, about forty miles from my home. The book inspired a film by the same name, directed by Robert Redford and starring Brad Pitt.
The author, a retired English professor, was 70 years old when he wrote A River Runs Through It. He began with what is probably the best first paragraph I have ever read: "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our…
From Julia's list on that will make you fall in love with Montana.
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