Norman Maclean Knihy

Collection of three Western stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.

Tells what happened on August 5, 1949 in Man Gulch, Montana when fifteen smokejumpers came to fight a forest fire.

Ohne Sentimentalität, mit feinem Humor erzählt der amerikanische Autor (1902-1990) von der verschwundenen Welt der Holzfäller und Ranger in den unberührten Regionen Montanas um 1920.

A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and a favourite of Sean Connery and Billy Connolly's, Norman MacLean is a living legend in the Gaelic world. Based in the Uists in the Outer Hebrides, with side trips to Glasgow, Hamburg and Amsterdam, this dotty adventure embraces frustrated sex, drugs, eightsome reels and a memorable cast of oddball three inept would-be criminals, a demented care-home resident, an ex-communicant of the Free Church of Scotland who moonlights as an enforcer, a pair of Russian weight-lifters who raise ostriches by day and mud-wrestle by night, and a formidable woman lawyer determined to cleanse the island of wrongdoing before HM The Queen arrives on her annual visit. Something akin to a mad Gaelic version of The Sopranos as directed by the Coen Brothers, this novella is a masterclass of understatement, pitch-perfect dialogue and confident narration.

La storia di due fratelli del Montana che hanno la passione della pesca a mosca in luoghi magnifici e deserti, che si studiano in ogni dettaglio, si amano – e non si capiscono: perché sono proprio «le persone con cui viviamo, che amiamo e che dovremmo conoscere meglio, a eluderci». «Un capolavoro» (Alfred Kazin).