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A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition (平装)
by Norman Maclean
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Memoir |
| Market price: ¥ 138.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A book that you will read again and again - the story, the life's lessons, the metaphors, the prose, the poetic descriptions of life, fishing, nature, relationships, human weaknesses... Simply amazing and beautiful! |
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M. Prufer (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
This is a beautiful, haunting book that will live within you well after you finish the last page. Sure, the movie was lovely but could not compare to the lyrical grace of Norman Maclean's words. I only hate that he started his craft so late in life (or at least was published so late in life) and that we didn't get to enjoy more of his work before his death. I read A LOT of books, and this is one of my alltime favorites, among the top 5 and definitely a classic. I give it as a gift to my reading friends. While it's about fly fishing, it's not about fly fishing; it's about so much more -- life, family relationships, living in the moment. I would never have touched this book except for the recommendation of Pete Dexter, a fine author himself, who profiled Maclean in an Esquire article some years ago. If you can get your hands on it, it will give you some wonderful insight into the person Maclean was. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
This tale of two brothers, their family and their passion forfly fishing and the Montana outdoors, causes me to have conflictingemotions: on the one hand, it inspires me to try to create my own work of fiction, while on the other hand, it causes me to despair of such an undertaking, as any attempts I might make will be clumsy and lackluster compared to McLean's novella. A friend, who was an English major in college and actually buys large quantities of those slightly oversized, artsy paperback works of fiction that sell for $14, recommended this book to me. She is an exceptionally bright, well-read individual, who has never had a thought in her life of taking up fishing as a hobby, yet her description of this book is 100% accurate. She told me that A River Runs Through It was the most beautifully written piece of literature that has ever graced the English language. I could not agree more.
After finishing this work, I can only wonder with amazement why this short book was not required reading for any of my various English classes in my past. We read Hemingway as an example of powerful, concise writing, yet compared to McLain, our good friend Ernest appears effete, odd and uninteresting. Read some of the other reviews (discounting the several obviously juvenile ones, every single discriminating adult gave this novella five stars) and the adjective that is used most frequently, and most appropriately, is "beautiful." McLean achieved perfection in this work. Read it and you will feel enriched. |
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Patrick Riser (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
A River Runs Through It is quite simply the single greatest book I have ever read. Maclean's language is as terse and economical as any in Hemingway, but Maclean imparts the type of true feeling and emotion into his simple words that Hemingway himself was incapable of producing. A River Runs Through It is not a story about fishing, but rather a tale of family. The family just happens to share a love of fishing, and Maclean's love of waters has more to do with its close association with his family than with the actual fishing that takes place there. It is the family's tragic loss of Paul, the true master fly-fisherman of the clan, that ties Maclean to waters and inspires the closing lines of the novella. A River Runs Through It delves into interpersonal relationships in a manner which grips the reader and makes him/her reflect on his/her own family. Although I am myself an avid fisherman, I am a more avid reader and I can say that for my part, the fishing element of the story is unimportant except for its association with Maclean's family. Maclean's prose is beautiful to point that his description of a common object or occurence could bring the reader to tears. A River Runs Through It is quite simply the most beautiful thing I have ever read. |
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Nathan (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
In the great speed of the western world one would not think that such things existed. Give this book to any of your pals and see the calm that comes over them. This book is an American Classic. Though very small it abounds with wisdom and soul. At the risk of heresy I state that all American men should read this book. It puts the male sensitivity into perspective and might help some of us find that sensitivity. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
A River Runs Through It is a story of the heart of a man and the passion for life that runs through all men. Some of us may not be aware of this when we look at our lives of struggle and mediocrity. Others may say this is a dreamer's attitude. Norman Maclean shows us how it is as natural as a river, and as powerful as a fist . This book is about men, and growing into manhood. It uses the river both as metaphor and as the dramatic backdrop for a life of a man. It is written as if every word was distilled to its purest essence, and reads as a drink of the finest wine. I read it sentence by sentence and went over many passages simply to savor the view and the feel it created in me. Read it and treasure it and give it to another man you may care about. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
This is one of my all-time, top five favorite books. I love the way Norman Maclean strings his words together, the way he makes writing about fly fishing and family a ballet of words. I laughed and cried and found myself reading more and more slowly as I approached the end of the book. (It's always a sign of a great story for me when I don't want the book to end.) I will reread this book at least once a year. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
Norman Maclean happens to use his muse, fly fishing, to relate the intricate and subtle nature of one man's relationship with father, mother, wife and brother. Time worn, biblical themes are set down in everyman's terms and after 100 pages a boy (however old) will surely examine his relationship to those people most important to him. After numerous readings the story continues to roll the rocks in the river, revealing more of the words. I, too, am haunted by waters. |
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Shawn Crimmins (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
I went into this novel having already seen, and enjoyed, the movie. I had travelled to the area of the country that it was set in several times, and I had been fly-fishing while out there. But I was struck by how the book was still able to move me. Maclean's eloquent descriptions are able to come as close to transporting the reader to the place being written of as any novel I have ever read. You don't have to love the mountains, fly-fishing, or your little brother to like this book. But if you try to understand what these things meant to Maclean then you will get much more out of this wonderful work. |
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Mara Hiley (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
This book reads like a conversation, it feels like Maclean is sitting directly acroos from you telling his life's story. The language is so poetic that even though I've never fished or liked the outdoors it made me want to. I highly recommend it. |
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Mark Durrenberger (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-28 00:00>
This book touched my heart like no story or movie I have ever experienced. Every father will read this and think of their sons. Every son will think of their father and brothers. |
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