Robin Cody

Ricochet River is set in a fictional Oregon town in the late 1960s. This completely revised edition is a superlative coming-of-age story about teenagers preparing to break out of their small-town lives: Wade, the local sports hero; Jesse, his friend—the Indian kid and mythical athlete who applies his own rules to sports and life; and Lorna, Wade’s sweetheart, who knows there’s no hope in Calamus for a bright, independent girl. The river rushes past the town, linking the three friends with their pasts, their plans, and the world beyond.

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ISBN: 978-932010-04-6
5 ½” x 8 ½”, softcover
264 pages
$14.95

About the Author

Robin Cody

Robin Cody is a freelance writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He is a winner of the Western Writers of America Silver Spur Award for short nonfiction. In 1995, he won the Oregon Book Award for Voyage of a Summer Sun, an account of his canoe trip from the headwaters of the Columbia to its mouth at the Pacific. In 2005, Ricochet River was selected as one of top 100 literary works produced in Oregon in the last two hundred years. Mr. Cody lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Donna.

Praise

Mr. Cody sets the crucial scenes out of doors, and much of the book’s rich imagery springs from this very particular terrain. In captivating prose, Mr. Cody tells a story of unusual wisdom and grace.
— The New York Times

The complicated beauty of this tale, shuttling between Indian legend and modern ‘macho’ expectations, is a stunning achievement.
— William Wharton, author of Birdy and A Midnight Clear

If we go to novels for a sense of vision, we will find in Ricochet River the topography of injustice, a map soberly true and vitally relevant, telling us where we stand.
— Oregon Historical Quarterly

Ricochet River has been recommended for course work by a number of high school and college teachers, some comparing it to J.D. Salinger’s masterpiece, The Catcher in the Rye.
— The Oregonian