![]() ![]() By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean's own words, a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by. 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. Based on Maclean's own experiences as a young man, the two novellas and short story it contains are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. Elegantly redesigned, A River Runs through It includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, whose film adaptation of River turns twenty-five in 2017. This new edition will introduce a fresh audience to Maclean's beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Read more through It has over the decades established itself as a classic of the American West. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture for fly fishing, for the woods and their people, and for the interlocked beauty of life and art A River Runs. Forty years later, 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 to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. Description for A River Runs through It and Other Stories Paperback. ![]()
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