A river runs through it
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1989.
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Book
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161 pages : ill. ; 23 cm.
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1160L
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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). 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. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it." 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." "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 Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award-winning film adaptation
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English
ISBN:
0226500608 (alk. paper) :
Lexile measure:
1160

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Originally appeared as the first of three stories, published together as A river runs through it, and other stories. 1976.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Maclean, N., & Moser, B. (1989). A river runs through it. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Maclean, Norman, 1902-1990 and Barry. Moser. 1989. A River Runs Through It. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Maclean, Norman, 1902-1990 and Barry. Moser, A River Runs Through It. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1989.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Maclean, Norman and Barry Moser. A River Runs Through It. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1989.

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