Certain books can have an impact on your life. For John Maclean and his father Norman, it was Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River.”

“I would argue that without ‘Big Two-Hearted River,’ all the Maclean books would have been written differently,” Maclean said. “I would argue further, and could never prove, that none of the Maclean books might ever have been written without ‘Big Two-Hearted River.’”

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