![]() ![]() ![]() I spent four hours one afternoon picking out three paragraphs to drop into a column I was writing about the book, and in the end they didn’t translate, because except for the first sentence-'In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing'-there isn’t anything in it that doesn’t depend on what comes before it for its meaning. That's the way it comes back to me: I hear the sound of the words, then I see them happen. I thought for a while it was the writing that kept bringing it around. ![]() It is the truest story I ever read it might be the best written. ![]() It is about not understanding what you love, about not being able to help. It is a story about Maclean and his brother, Paul, who was beaten to death with a gun butt in 1938. "A River Runs Through It" is a semi-autobiographical account of Maclean's relationship with his brother Paul and their upbringing in an early 20th century Montana family in which "there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing." Pete Dexter, in a 1981 profile of Maclean in Esquire magazine, described the novella: Locations in western Montana from "A River Runs Through It" ![]()
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