![]() ![]() A significant theme traversing the narrative is the practice of fly-fishing in Montana’s Big Blackfoot River, which is likened to something sacred by the boys’ Presbyterian preacher father, John. What makes the novella extraordinary is the literary fusion that Maclean – a retired professor of literature when he wrote it at the age of 74 – achieves between the spiritual and the natural, with a tragic thread running through the events comprising the lives of the Maclean family and those whose lives become intertwined with theirs. His father, John, married to Clara, their mother, is a Presbyterian minister and unlike his younger brother, Paul, who is quite wild and wayward by nature, Norman is academically inclined (although he is also intermittently a street fighter, like his brother, who excels at it, as he does at fly-fishing). ![]() He was the older brother in the Maclean family, living in Western Montana – one of the most beautiful states in America – and the narrative unfolds more or less between the end of the First World War and the advent of the Second World War. ![]() ![]() The film by the name, ‘A River Runs through It’ (Redford 1992) is based on an autobiographical novella by Norman Maclean, similarly titled ‘A River Runs through It and Other Storie’s (Maclean 2017 Kindle edition). ![]()
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