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It is true that one day a week was given over wholly to religion. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. This is more than stunning fiction: It is a lyric record of a time and a life, shining with Maclean's special gift for calling the reader's attention to arts of all kinds—the arts that work in nature, in personality, in social intercourse, in fly-fishing."—Kenneth M. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway."≺lfred Kazin "Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It, excerpt