Norman Maclean

A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and a favourite of Sean Connery and Billy Connollys, 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 characters: 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.

A comedian, singer, composer, musician, linguist, actor, author and a favourite of Sean Connery and Billy Connollys, Norman MacLean is a living legend in the Gaelic world and a household name across the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Yet for all his creative genius Norman MacLean is virtually anonymous outside this ribbon of northern Scotland. His career has been etched with enormous highs and lows - a reflection of the turmoil of his private life, where a lifelong battle with alcohol has had a crippling effect on everything that he has touched, and which has arguably prevented him from achieving the global recognition that his undoubted talent so merited.In The Lepers Bell, an erudite, analytical and frank autobiography of this wonderful, unique, but ultimately little-known star, Norman MacLean reveals the man behind the comedy and the crippling horrors of alcoholism. It is in turns tragic and uplifting, devastating and hilarious, elegant and heartbreaking, and one of the most compelling and moving memoirs to appear in recent years.

En «El río de la vida», la primera y más extensa de las tres historias autobiográficas que forman este libro, un padre estricto transmite a sus dos hijos -Norman y Paul− su pasión por la pesca con mo

En El río de la vida, la primera y más extensa de las tres historias autobiográficas que forman este libro, un padre estricto transmite a sus dos hijos -Norman y Paul− su pasión por la pesca con mosc

El 5 de agosto de 1949, una cuadrilla de quince bomberos paracaidistas de élite del Servicio Forestal de los Estados Unidos, los smokejumpers, se lanzó sobre un incendio forestal en un punto remoto de Montana. Dos horas despues del salto, todos menos tres habian muerto o sufrido quemaduras mortales debido a un blowup que arraso todo lo que encontro a su paso. Torturado por estas muertes durante cuarenta años, el leñador, maestro y contador de historias Norman Maclean completa el puzle del tragico incendio de Mann Gulch en La montaña en llamas, un libro emocionante y profundo que gano el National Book Critics Circle Award en 1992. Esta sobrecogedora narracion del peor desastre en la historia del Servicio Forestal de los Estados Unidos esta considerada hoy en dia como un clasico de la no ficcion norteamericana y hace honor al legado literario de un hombre que dio voz a un rincon esencial del alma estadounidense.