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Norm tells about his father, brother Paul and mother as they live close to rivers. Many theories spun from my cousin Paul's death, from the Indian lady he went with in Montana, Montana, the baseball game in the 1930's with a black lady to gambling debts.

. Us Manitoba Macleans had the same thinking. In reference to Jessie's brother, but perhaps also about himself.

Probably aren't too many people reading this review that haven't seen the movie "A River Runs Through It." So I guess the last line of the novella "I am haunted by waters" is Normans guilt in not being able to help Paul.

Hope Andrew is doing well. Hi Andrew, you mentioned a black women and Cubs game two times in this post..please explain what happened.

"If only he hadn't left Montana.".

I'm curious.

Im speculating - but I honestly don't think this is what made Paul unique as I'd imagine most rough blue collar young men of the era engaged in this sort of thing. Norman and Paul always felt strong about Montana in their sentiments.

It blew me away.

Great story, great writing. The guy was fearless.

Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. After reading this blog it sounds like Paul had it coming to him.

Thanks a lot. But old habits die hard. Ken.

If you read the history of Montana, you will learn that the Anaconda Company controlled most of everything in the state--the newspapers, the forests, the mills, the minerals, smelters, railroads. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. And Paul (Brad) is as beautiful as he must have been in life.

For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. As described by Norman. Powered by. It was a route for escaped slaves, heading for Pennsylvania. I saw the movie in the theater when it first came out. Given that Chicago was (and to a lesser extent still is) a city of neighborhood bars, I would be very surprised if he and Paul did not know each other.

Just curious, does anyone have any information as to where the Rev. Evocative stylist of Montana mountain men in the 1920s, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2019. Ken, I have an idea why he was killed in Montana and not Illinois. Yes, I agree that the murder was probably over gambling debts.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. The reason I believe he had Paul die in Montana was a final gift to his brother, a final resting place for all of the MacLean family.

That's poetic license that Norman refers to, but I have always wanted to connect the dots. A few crusading newspapers opposed the company, and Paul worked for them.

He does not accept nor try to help himself. . Unknown if he ever went fishing, he was hung over when he went to work @ around 1:00PM in the afternoon and worked until 7:00PM till 8:00PM.

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A time gone but still desired by all who wish to alone, quite and one with nature with the strength of the wild all around, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2014. Seven years later I confronted my father about my feelings that he had some deep dark secret in his past.

. I think the more you delve, the more disappointed you'll be.

It seems Norman wanted to help but maybe felt helpless in trying to help because maybe Paul was beyond help. When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs through It and Other Stories 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.

I hope to fish the same area some day with my boys, or atleast some of the same rivers that they fished.

Of course, teaching Lear and Hamlet for almost 40 years helped him frame the story.

I believe he only went there 2 years - again have to check facts.

A similar urge drove baseball to supplant American cricket around this time. I've long been a fan of the book and have always tried to find more information about Paul Maclean and the timeline of his life. When Norman and his father referred to him as beautiful, they may have also been referring to his physical appearance. The alley was simply a body dump. But Paul wouldn't listen.

But what do I know. So we have this larger than life guy who self-destructs on a consistant basis untill he is finally put out of his misery.

I read a source who said, regarding Pauls death, that "Paul was being Paul" before he skull was crushed.

I do think he either drank and liked to "party" as I've seen written, but as to whether he was a full blown addict is another thing. So much said with few words in the movie!

I think I'm intrigued by the idea of a person who is belligerent and eager to fight, and drinks heavily would make it anywhere in the world. Such a beautiful story of love of fishing and family!!

3) Norman wrote in the book as well he was killed in Montana. Yet the fly-fishing establishment remained concentrated on the Anglocentric east coast.

I guess I have not been aware enough of Norman’s feeling of regret while watching the movie over and over again.

I am haunted by waters.

I have them but don't know how to post them here.

I think he was in the wrong place at the wrong time--someone asked for his wallet, he said no, got into a fight and got whacked on the back of the head with something--a blackjack, a gun butt, something that didn't cut his head but crushed his skull.

Also, as a man in those times to be kind of have serious movie star looks, perhaps you had to be belligerent. My guess, (if I had to put money on it lol) is gambling debts.

I'm replying to my own post here - I think much is made of drinking and gambling and womanizing and fighting.

I would like to believe the story false but maybe somebody knows more. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. I am waiting for your next article….

There's a problem loading this menu right now. An absolutely beautiful book. Wise, witty, wonderful, Maclean spins his tales, casts his flies, fishes the rivers and the woods for what he remembers from his youth in the Rockies.”, “A masterpiece.

It's a fictitious story, that's why its called a n-o-v-e-l lol. ''Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? Of which all three, more than likely, led to his death. That is a couple of miles upstream, near the reservoir which, thanks to a decades-old agreement between the local anglers and city of Baltimore, releases a steady flow of water into the river.

Indeed, through most of the novella we know that Norman and Jessie are already married and there's no discussion on how they met at all.

Norman Maclean wrote about what he loved, and his love showed in what he wrote. Your every post always give us some qualitative things.

What is your source for saying Paul worked for the Tribune? Norman said that in Chicago, as in Helena, Paul would take long walks at night, even though Norman cautioned him not to do so. Also, the town is expecting its 25-year anniversary event in September; one of the guests is Tom Skerritt.

A River Runs through It and Other Stories, Preloaded Digital Audio Player, Unabridged. Certainly in the category of novellas - as has been noted by better more able reviewers than me.

Maybe.. Paul said he'd never leave Montana, and his death being depicted there instead of Chicago is representative of Paul's life in that no matter where he went the result was going to be the same.. fishing and gambling were who he was no matter where he ended up.. maybe Norman was saying that even had he been in Montana, his ways woulda caught up with him..they were such different times, it seems his rebellious ways and refusal to comform with societal norms might of pissed a few people off!! In a good way.

With Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn. He worked for the University of Chicago in the public information department, I was told. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 16, 2018, A great read. So that is what Lexington, his nine-year-old son, and “Kal”, this newspaper’s cartoonist-in-chief, were set upon, one glorious recent afternoon, with an eagerness whetted by days cooped up. Does Delhi, India, lie far from any river? That would be awesome if we could come back to join you in Seeley Lake, but we cannot either.