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The Norman Maclean Reader
Norman Maclean
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Description for The Norman Maclean Reader
Hardcover. In his 88 years, Norman Maclean (1902-90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, which won him enduring fame and critical acclaim. This reader offers an introduction Norman Maclean and provides insight into his life and career. Editor(s): Weltzien, O. Alan. Num Pages: 352 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
In his eighty-eight years, Norman Maclean (1902-90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, which won him enduring fame and critical acclaim - as well as the devotion of readers worldwide. Though the 1976 collection "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories" was the only book Maclean published in his lifetime, it was an unexpected success, and the moving family tragedy of the title novella - based largely on Maclean's memories of early twentieth-century Montana - has proved to be one of the most ... Read more
In his eighty-eight years, Norman Maclean (1902-90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, which won him enduring fame and critical acclaim - as well as the devotion of readers worldwide. Though the 1976 collection "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories" was the only book Maclean published in his lifetime, it was an unexpected success, and the moving family tragedy of the title novella - based largely on Maclean's memories of early twentieth-century Montana - has proved to be one of the most ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226500263
SKU
V9780226500263
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About Norman Maclean
O. Alan Weltzien, professor of English at the University of Montana-Western, in Dillon, Montana, is the editor of The Literary Art and Activism of Rick Bass, coeditor of Coming Into McPhee Country, and the author of A Father and an Island: Reflections on Loss, a memoir.
Reviews for The Norman Maclean Reader
"It is an enchanted tale.... I have read the story three times now, and each time it seems fuller." - Roger Sale, New York Review of Books "Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling.... As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway." - Alfred Kazin, Chicago Tribune Book World "In 1990 Norman Maclean died in body, but for hundreds ... Read more