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Title: Art as literature
Review: This is the type of book I look at as more a work of art than literature. Although the two can be intertwined, Norman Mclean takes the simple premise of the bond between a family and especially its brothers made permanent by fly-fishing and creates an artistic collage about the two. Admittedly, although I am not a fly fisherman, the sport can be quite beautiful to watch. Mclean is able to translate that beauty onto the page. He then effectively compares that beauty to the inner workings of his family. One warning, if you have seen the movie and have the same expectations for the book, beware. The book is not so much a linear story as a picture illustration of one family's relationship represented by fly-fishing.
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