They are in fact quite different, with Paul developing a real addiction on alcohol and gambling. On these adventures, the two brothers don’t need to discuss or talk because they feel things intensely. As adults the two of them continue to go fishing, while being very competitive (here is perhaps a defining personality trait of US citizens, whose competitiveness seems to encompass everything they endeavor).
When they were young, the brothers would go fly fishing with their father, which allowed them to become remarkably proficient in the practice, especially Paul who became a master fly-fisherman. We meet with a father who is a Presbyterian minister, a loving mother and their two boys : the elder is Norman, and the second is Paul, 3 years younger. Here we have a very powerful novella revolving around a family story set in the 1920’s in western Montana. Norman Maclean said he wrote this book as a love poem to his family. He worked for the US Forest Service for 3 years and spent some time in logging camps. The author lived in Missoula, Montana since moving there in 1909. The second one is Logging and Pimping & « your pal, Jim »and the third one is USFS 1919. The book contains 3 stories : the longest one bears the book’s title and is the most known. The book’s title in French is La Rivière du Sixième jour and the film’s is Et au milieu coule une rivière as often titles from books and films change a lot when translated, and sometimes readers can get mixed up. The novella occurs in Missoula, Montana, on the Big Blackfoot River, but the movie was filmed in Livingston and Bozeman, Montana and mainly on the Gallatin River.
In 1992, the book was adapted into a motion picture directed by Robert Redford and starring a young Brad Pitt as Paul Maclean. Norman Maclean was an american writer and scholar (Iowa 1902-Chicago 1990), well known for his book A river runs through it(1976) a semi-autobiographical novella.
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