EAN: 9780226472065

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT AND OTHER STORIES - NOR...

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. 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 the twentieth century  and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our
time. 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. This new edition will introduce a fresh
audience to Maclean's beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Elegantly redesigned
A River Runs through It includes a new foreword by Robert Redford  director of the Academy
Award-winning 1992 film adaptation of River . Based 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. 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. 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."

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