{"product_id":"used-a-river-runs-though-it-and-other-stories","title":"Used - A River Runs Though It And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJust as Norman Maclean writes at the end of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A River Runs Through It\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that he is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"haunted by waters,\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA River Runs Through It and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e now celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary, marked by this new edition that includes a foreword by Annie Proulx.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaclean 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish Date - 01\/01\/1976 - Used Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67714942402870,"sku":null,"price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/IMG-6394.heic?v=1791915122","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/used-a-river-runs-though-it-and-other-stories","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}