Struggling with feelings of inadequacy, Sam navigates the challenges of adolescence while feeling overshadowed by his accomplished peers and his younger brother, Gobby, a secret prodigy. His journey is further complicated by his parents' deteriorating marriage and the emotional turmoil of watching his crush become involved with his best friend. This coming-of-age story explores themes of self-identity, familial relationships, and the challenges of finding one's place in a competitive world.
Exploring themes of self-discovery and spiritual growth, this book delves into the human soul through reflective storytelling set against the backdrop of wilderness. It takes readers on a transformative journey filled with life-changing revelations and profound insights about nature's beauty and significance. Through lyrical prose, the author encourages a deeper appreciation for the natural world, promoting environmental consciousness and a reconnection with nature. This literary work stands as a testament to the author's ability to inspire and uplift through timeless reflections on life and the human experience.
Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of "A River Runs Through It" that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century. Originally published in 1976, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx.Maclean grew up in the western Rocky Mountains in the first decades of the twentieth century. As a young man he worked many summers in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service. The two novellas and short story in this collection are based on his own experiences—the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its structures and beauty. The beauty he found was in reality, and so he leaves a careful record of what it was like to work in the woods when it was still a world of horse and hand and foot, without power saws, "cats," or four-wheel drives. Populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, and set in the small towns and surrounding trout streams and mountains of western Montana, the stories concern themselves with the complexities of fly fishing, logging, fighting forest fires, playing cribbage, and being a husband, a son, and a father.
Et au milieu coule une rivière est plus qu’un roman autobiographique, c’est un récit imprégné d’une lumineuse nostalgie, un livre qui défend une philosophie inspirante. Norman Maclean y raconte son enfance dans les Rocheuses, au sein de paysages magnifiques dont chaque relief influence en profondeur ceux qui y vivent. Comme dans les romans de Pete Fromm, la pêche n’est pas qu’un simple loisir, c’est un art de vivre, une discipline, une chanson de geste qui apprend tout et qui poursuivra Norman dans toutes les étapes importantes de son existence. Préface de Robert Redford, metteur en scène du célèbre film inspiré du récit de Maclean.
Collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.
»Es ließen sich schwerlich drei Männer finden, die Seite an Seite saßen und besser wussten, was der Fluss sagte.« Für die drei Maclean-Männer ist das Fliegenfischen mehr als eine Leidenschaft. Pastor Maclean beginnt früh, seine Söhne in der Kunst des Fliegenfischens zu unterweisen. »In unserer Familie gab es keine klare Trennungslinie zwischen Religion und Fliegenfischen«, so beginnt die autobiographische Erzählung von Norman Maclean. Die Brüder sind verschieden - intellektuell und wild der eine, bodenständig und ruheliebend der andere. Das Fliegenfischen aber verbindet sie, gerade dann, wenn sie nicht die richtigen Worte finden. Der Sommer des Jahres 1937, den die Brüder in ihrer Heimat im Westen von Montana verbringen, nimmt ein tragisches Ende, als einer der beiden erschlagen aufgefunden wird. Die Summe von Norman Macleans Lebenserfahrung ist auch die Summe der amerikanischen Literatur, in der Tod und Vertreibung aus dem Paradies, spirituelle wie konkrete Erfahrungen, Versuchung und Versöhnung immer einen Platz hatten.
