Norman MacLean: A Life of Letters and Rivers

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0295752483 ISBN13: 9780295752488 Release Date: May 2024 Publisher: University of Washington Press Length: 272 Pages Weight: 1.20 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.5" The first biography of one of Montana's most celebrated writers A River Runs Through It and Other Stories turned Norman Maclean into a late-in-life literary phenomenon and then a household name after the success of the Hollywood film based on the title story. Yet fewer know of Maclean's lifelong struggles to reconcile very different parts of himself: the revered teacher and writer in the intellectual hub of Chicago and the Montana man compelled by the wildness and traumas of his home state and family, including the tragic Mann Gulch fire and the murder of his brother.Rebecca McCarthy's intimate portrait of Maclean draws on her long friendship with the author from the time she became a student at the University of Chicago through the rest of his life. Irrepress