Norman Maclean Didn't Publish Much. What He Did Contains Everything
Briefly

You could read his literary output in a single day, yet it includes almost all there is to know about what the English language can do.
For all the years afterward, until his death, at eighty-seven, he worked on a book about a different tragedy on a hillside-a wildfire in Montana that killed twelve smoke jumpers and a forest ranger.
Read at The New Yorker
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