A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

from foof2you

Three short stories drawing on Maclean's life as a forest employee, a logger and his family. The main story is centered on family and fishing, fly fishing to be exact. All three stories are told with beautiful prose and makes you feel like you are there with them'

from jphamilton

I've returned to my past, to a glorious part of it with a book titled A River Runs Through It. I've returned to this book a number of times before, but like so many other things that my late wife and I shared a strong passion for, it has become a little more bittersweet in its glory now these man...

from TCWriter

Maclean does a superb job in the novella, which is rightly considered a classic. It drives me slightly crazy when people suggest this book is about fly fishing (and I say that as a fly fisherman). It's about Maclean's family, and to that end, he carefully and honestly paints a group portrait that...

from baumgarten

On the surface, the title story is his recollections of his father, a Presbyterian minister, and his troubled but talented brother, with whom he fished. Set in the Montana of Maclean's youth, he paints exquisitely vivid and beautiful word pictures of a land and water and family now gone. At the c...

from klarusu

In case anyone reads the review and is worried, the information I've referred to in it, whilst containing plot details, is not a Spoiler as Maclean himself refers to the events at the beginning of the novella. I have focused on the main piece in this collection, 'A River Runs Through It' as it is...