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While two novellas and a short story come together to make up the full body of work in A River Runs Through It, for the purposes of such a short response I am going to respond to the novella of the same name, to focus my critique. "A River Runs Through It" is the meat and potatoes of the collection. This is a recollection brought to us through a man who comes from a family that, even with a father as a preacher, doesn"t see much separation between the sanctity of religion and the sanctity of fly fishing. In this story it is actually fly fishing which appears more sublime than the Presbyterian faith of the author"s Scottish family.

Norman Maclean covers a whole variety of incidents in that one novella/essay. We see the aging of his father, the murder of his brother, the cheating of his sister"s husband with a prostitute. Yet what always keeps coming back is the fishing. Once. Twice. Thrice. Every trip back to the river is not an annoying repetition, but a rhythmic continuance of the time before. Each of these scenes has a sublime, almost holy quality to them.

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