A River Runs Through It - On The Big Blackfoot

In A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean claims that "in my family, there was no clear line between religion and fly-fishing." Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son, bridging troubled relationships at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana. In Maclean's autobiographical novella, it is the river that makes them realize that life continues and all things are related. Norman Maclean grew up in and around Missoula, Montana, where he worked in logging camps and for the U.S. Forest Service. He attended Dartmouth College and taught English for 46 years at the University of Chicago. He began writing A River Runs Through It in his 70s, at the request of his children. His son John remembers him as "the greatest man in the world to go fishing with." Narrator Ivan Doig is a native of Montana and the bestselling author of This House of Sky, Dancing at the Rascal Norman Maclean Fair, Winter Brothers, and The Whistling Season.