Norman MacLean

By: MacLean, Norman

Book Overview

Ten of Maclean's previously uncollected speeches and essays, two fantastic interviews, family photos, and contributions by Studs Terkel, William Kittredge, Wendell Berry, Wallace Stegner and others.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0917652711
• ISBN13: 9780917652714
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Confluence Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Continually great prose by a master writer.

I picked up this collection of essays and interviews after being dazzled by "A River Runs Through It." The high quality of Maclean's prose there is continued on in this collection. Particularly good are the essays "This Quarter I am Taking McKeon: A Few Remarks on the Art of Teaching" (this is an absolutely wonderful essay if one is interested, in any way, in careers in teaching) and "Billiards is a Good Game" (which Maclean believed was one of the finest things he ever wrote). These and other essays and interviews reveal Maclean's character and style, and reinforce his position as a master of American prose. This position was evident in "River," and his essays here while reinforcing it also reveal another distinctly American quality to it - the ammount of care and hard work Maclean took in his writings. This volume is recommended to those who want to read more of Maclean, are interested in writing or education, or are simply looking for good reads. As a collection of essays and interviews it succeeds admirably in all these qualities, and is well worth reading.

Superb compilation of Maclean stories, interviews, lectures

A wonderful collection of interviews, lectures, and short stories, some easily the equal of those found in "River." The interviews reveal a charming and intelligent man. His gift for opening lines is shown again and again, as his is talent for making prose blur quietly into poetry. I just reread "River" for the first time in several years, and remembered this book. I loaned it several years ago, and the borrower apparently couldn't bear the parting. A fine book.