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‘I am haunted by waters’: Norman Maclean and his lyrical ‘little blue book’

The author of A River Runs Through It emerges as wiry, sardonic, compassionate and inspirational from Rebecca McCarthy’s trenchant memoir

Norman Maclean – wiry, sardonic, compassionate and inspirational. [Credit: Joel Snyder]
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  • Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers

    Rebecca McCarthy

    University of Washington Press, pp. 232, £25

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