A River Runs Through It and Other Sto..., Norman Maclean
A River Runs Through It and Other Sto..., Norman Maclean
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Author: Norman Maclean

Narrator: David Manis

Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/30/2010


Synopsis

In A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean claims that “in my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.” Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son, bridging troubled relationships at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana. In Maclean’s autobiographical novella, it is the river that makes them realize that life continues and all things are related.

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.

Here, with A River Runs Through It, are two Norman Maclean stories never before on audio:
Logging and Pimping and “Your Pal, Jim”USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky

About Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean grew up in and around Missoula, Montana, where he worked in logging camps and for the U.S. Forest Service. He attended Dartmouth College and taught English for forty-six years at the University of Chicago.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on April 27, 2019

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 mo......more

Goodreads review by Mitch on November 18, 2015

It took Maclean most of his life to write his first book, and it reads as if he’d been saving every beautiful observation about life, family and fly fishing for one unforgettable burst. I never tire of reading it.......more

Goodreads review by Dan on January 03, 2015

Growing up, while the rest of my family hated the movie, I have always been inexplicably attracted to its ideas. Whenever it was on the TV, I had to sneak down to the basement to watch it. The film is one of the few out there that can speak to my innermost soul. I finally read the book a few years a......more

Goodreads review by Leftbanker on June 01, 2023

I really, really fucking hate to fish, but. Can you end a sentence with "but?" Did I write that correctly with the quotation marks? Do you see what I'm doing here? I'm using humor to avoid talking about my real feelings. When I first read this book I was on a cross-country flight. I was just finishi......more

Goodreads review by James on August 24, 2011

This is one of my favorite of all books, best known for the novella that opens the book and provides its title. It may be a book that could only have been written by someone in his seventies, as Maclean was when he began it. On the surface, it's a story about Maclean, his gifted but fundamentally fl......more