Book cover of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Norman Maclean

Two brothers, fly fishing and grief in Montana, in one of the best-loved American novellas.

Norman Maclean’s 1976 book, published when he was in his seventies. The title novella is a memoir-like story of two brothers in Montana in the 1930s, the narrator and his younger brother Paul, a brilliant fly fisherman whose life is falling apart. It is joined by two stories about the author’s youth in the Forest Service and logging camps.

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Tim Lott

Novelist and Journalist

What really struck me about this book was the love between these two brothers. That is what I felt a relationship between brothers should and could be – that some people actually have, and which I missed out on.

Interview · March 2012

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