Redford learned much while fishing with him, as he courted the man for his permission to film a version of the book. This edition has an excellent foreword written by Redford that gives some insights into the author’s thoughts. I returned to the book after catching the last third of Robert Redford’s beautiful movie based on the book.
While these two stories are rougher than River in many ways-partly as they lack the family connection of the novella-they are strong stories on their own. The book shares its pages with two stories also by Norman Maclean, “Logging and Pimping and ‘Your Pal, Jim’” and “USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky.” The first is quite a short piece, while the second is much longer, but they both allow Maclean to draw on his long experience with the backwoods of Montana, and the hard life of loggers and those in the United States Forest Service. I’ve returned to this book a number of times before, but like so many other things that my late wife and I shared a strong passion for, it has become a little more bittersweet in its glory now these many years later. I’ve returned to my past, to a glorious part of it with a book titled A River Runs Through It. Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation Read more
“Maclean’s book-acerbic, laconic, deadpan-rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” - New York Times Book Review 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. 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 filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights.īased 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. Today, 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 and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” ( Chicago Tribune).
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