On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. I am so impressed with how well the book has been cared for and shipped. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories Quotes Showing 1-30 of 73.

Pete Dexter, 'The Old Man and the River', Esquire, June 1981, available online. Buy A River Runs Through It SIGNED by NORMAN MACLEAN First online on Etsy India. Williams.Ī fine copy in very good jacket, spine and folds lightly sunned, foot of spine and corners rubbed, a few nicks to top edges and lower corners, two nicks to front panel, short closed tear to foot of front panel and head of rear panel, not price-clipped, clean and sharp. Vignettes in the text after wood engravings by R. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, yellow endpapers. And to this day it won't leave me alone'.

It is the truest story I ever read it might be the best written. In his review for Esquire, Pete Dexter commented that the main story 'is about not understanding what you love, about not being able to help. A film adaptation of the titular story, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Robert Redford, was released in 1992 to critical acclaim. The author's first book of fiction, this collection of three autobiographical stories was nominated for the 1977 Pulitzer Prize.

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