a river runs through it and other stories

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 book's two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition by Maclean, Norman Used Condition Used - Very Good ISBN 13 9780226500669 ISBN 10 0226500667 Quantity Available 1 Seller SecondSale Montgomery, Illinois, United States Seller rating : Description: University of Chicago Press. This new edition will introduce a fresh audience to Maclean's beautiful prose and understated emotional insights.Įlegantly redesigned, A River Runs through It includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award-winning 1992 film adaptation of River.

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.

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. But for this narration to be self-edifying the storyteller must possess requisite moral virtues, such as humility and honesty.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 film suggests that telling a tale can lead the storyteller to self-understanding only because he goes through the process of crafting his story. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (Audible Audio Edition): Norman Maclean, David Manis, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books: Amazon.ca: Audible Books & Originals A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (Audible Audio Edition): Norman Maclean, David Manis, HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books: Amazon. It contrasts with the stories told by the two wayward brothers in that their stories do not yield understanding. The explicitly told story, moreover, is meant to give instruction, to be an edifying narrative. We are reminded that we are being told a story by a self-conscious narrator (the voice-over is director Redford’s). Although obviously a conventional story about a pair of brothers growing up in Montana, A River Runs Through It, is also about the art and experience of storytelling itself.

The power of narrative, then, at once shapes the film and is imminent within it. The subject of narrative is situated within the story in the numerous references to storytelling and examples of it.

A river runs through it and other stories