A River Runs through It and Other Sto...
Norman MacLeanJust 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 produce...
On August 5, 1949, a crew of 15 of the U.S. Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in Montana wilderness. Less than an hour later, all but three were dead or fat...
A River Runs Through It: Unabridged E...
Norman MacLeanIn 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 c...
The title novella tells the story of a young man in Montana, his errant brother, and their father (a minister like MacLean’s own father) who taught his sons fly fishing. The other stories in the collection are "USFS 1919: T...