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Norman Maclean

    23. december 1902 – 2. august 1990
    Gli Adelphi - 130: In mezzo scorre il fiume
    Dearest Dacha
    Der Ranger, der Koch und ein Loch im Himmel
    Young Men and Fire
    A River Runs through It and Other Stories
    • Dearest Dacha

      • 96 stránok
      • 4 hodiny čítania

      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.

      Dearest Dacha2011
    • Der Ranger, der Koch und ein Loch im Himmel

      • 191 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania

      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.

      Der Ranger, der Koch und ein Loch im Himmel1993
    • Young Men and Fire

      • 320 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

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

      Young Men and Fire1992
      4,1
    • Gli Adelphi - 130: In mezzo scorre il fiume

      • 153 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania

      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).

      Gli Adelphi - 130: In mezzo scorre il fiume1991
      4,0
    • A River Runs through It and Other Stories

      • 240 stránok
      • 9 hodin čítania

      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.

      A River Runs through It and Other Stories1976
      4,2