“The book just grew from no initial plan to what it eventually became,” the 78-year-old author said in a recent telephone interview. The story was read by an editor for HarperCollins Publishers who contacted Maclean and asked if he would consider expanding the article into a book about his well-known family and its ties to Montana. “I’d never seen a Blackfoot rainbow that big before, never,” he wrote of the catch-and-release experience for a magazine article. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.” – “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories,” by Norman MacleanīILLINGS – Almost salmon-like in its brawny proportions, the 7- to 8-pound rainbow trout John Maclean reeled in while fishing the Blackfoot River left him awestruck. ”After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don’t you make up a story and the people to go with it? Only then will you understand what happened and why.
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