A River Runs through It and Other Stories

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 240 pages

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Imprint:University of Chicago Press

ISBN:9780226472065

Published: 13 Jun 2017

Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:326g

Dimensions:142 x 215 x 17 (mm)

Pub. Country:United States

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

诺曼·麦克林（Norman Maclean）将《大河恋》的手稿发送给纽约出版商时，他遭到了很多拒绝。据说，一位编辑回答说：“里面有树。”四十年后，这部中篇小说标题被公认为二十世纪美国极伟大的故事之一，而麦克林则被认为是当代颇受人喜爱的作家之一。这是一种对飞蝇钓鱼、森林和森林里的人们、以及生活和艺术的交织之美进行了长期精雕细琢的产品，在过去的几十年里，这条河流已经确立了自己是美国西部的经典。

新版本将向新观众介绍麦克林的优美散文和低调的情感见解。经过精心设计的《大河恋》包括罗伯特·雷德福（Robert Redford）的新前言，根据《大河恋》改编的电影将于2017年上映。本书的两篇中篇和短篇小说以麦克林年轻时的亲身经历为背景，以蒙大拿州西部的小镇和山区为背景。

这是一个到处都是酒鬼、伐木者、卡淘客和妓女的世界，但同时也是一个充满了飞蝇钓鱼、伐木、cribbage和家庭乐趣的世界。用麦克莱恩自己的话来说，这些华丽的故事时而粗俗，时而伤感，表达了“我对逝去的大地的一点点爱。尽管他在二十世纪的前几十年在洛矶山脉西部长大，但他在夏季在伐木场和美国森林服务局工作，并培养了对枯蝇的终生热情，但直到70岁时，他才退休了，担任英语教授。诺曼·麦克林发现他是为了做什么:写作。一条河流流经这片土地，它感人而深刻，它纪念的是一个人的文学遗产，他令人难以置信地表达了美国灵魂中一个重要角落的声音。

麦克林在《大河恋》的结尾写道：“我被水困扰了。”所以，现在，我们所有人都是。

When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "It has trees in it." Forty years later, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture for fly fishing, for the woods and their people, and for the interlocked beauty of life and art A River Runs through It has over the decades established itself as a classic of the American West.

This new edition will introduce a fresh audience to Maclean's beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Elegantly redesigned, A River Runs through It includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, whose film adaptation of River turns twenty-five in 2017. Based on Maclean's own experiences as a young man, the two novellas and short story it contains are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana.

It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by." Though he grew up in the first decades of the twentieth century in the western Rockies working summers in logging camps and for the US Forest Service and cultivating a lifelong passion for the dry fly it was only at the age of seventy, as a retired English professor, that Norman Maclean discovered what he was meant to do: write. Moving and profound, A River Runs through It honors the literary legacy of a man who improbably gave voice to an essential corner of the American soul.

"I am haunted by waters," Maclean writes at the close of A River Runs through It. So, now, are we all.

目录

Foreword by Robert Redford (2017)

Acknowledgments (1976)

A River Runs through It

Logging and Pimping and “Your Pal, Jim”

USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook, and a Hole in the Sky

作者简介

诺曼·麦克林(1902-90)是一名伐木工、学者、教师和说书人。他在蒙大拿州的密苏拉及附近地区长大，在开始他的学术生涯之前，曾在伐木营地和美国林务局工作多年。在1973年之前，他一直是芝加哥大学的威廉·雷尼·哈珀英语教授。

Norman Maclean (1902–90), woodsman, scholar, teacher, and storyteller, grew up in and around Missoula, Montana, and worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States Forest Service before beginning his academic career. He was the William Rainey Harper Professor of English at the University of Chicago until 1973.