National Review, November 30th, 1992
NOT HAVING read Norman Maclean's acclaimed autobiographical novella A River Runs through It, I can't say how much better it is than the movie Richard Friedenberg has written, and Robert Redford directed, from it. A lot, I hope.
The story is a reminiscence of a brother who was an inspired fly fisherman, but came, because of his gambling-den debts, to a sticky end. This doomed younger brother, Paul, and Norman are the sons of Reverend Maclean, a stern but soft-spoken Scottish Canadian Presbyterian minister, who, with his equally staunch-wife, settled in Montana, in the sort of setting usually...
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