eBook Another Way the River Has: Taut True Tales from the Northwest (Northwest Readers) ePub

This book is not yet featured on Listopia. way the river has is a strong addition to the unique, vast pantheon of northwest storytelling. Most of the book covers Robin Cody's travels on a boat, which was given to him after he sort of helped build it, along the Willamette and Columbia rivers and their many tributaries.

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Another Way the River Has collects Robin Cody's finest nonfiction writings, many appearing for the first time in print. Cody's prose rings with a sense of place. He is a native speaker who probes the streams and woods and salmon that run to the heart of what it means to live and love. Cody is an Oregon native who previously penned the Oregon Book Award winner Voyage of a Summer Sun. He's part of that crew of Northwestern nature writers who articulate what it means to reside at the confluence of loggers and tree-huggers, hunters and hippies, Portland urbanites and Clatskanie farmers.

Oregon State University Press. This is a memoir of living near the water in Oregon. it included episodes on paddling the rivers and bays, and even attending local baseball games. The sports game chapters delve into why the local people are good at some sports. This book covers local flavor, traditions, lifestyles, especially rural life in lower-elevation Oregon. The authors writing style exudes this local lifestyle nicely.

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Cody's prose rings with a sense of place. He is a native speaker who probes the streams and woods and salmon that run to the heart of what it means to live and love, to work and play, in Oregon. His characters-from loggers to fishers to cowboys to the kids on his school bus-are smart and curious, often offbeat, always vivid.

Another Way the River Has: True Tales from the Northwest (2010) is a carefully crafted selection of short nonfiction pieces written between 1983 and 2008. Beneath the elegant simplicity of Cody’s narratives, fictional and nonfictional, is found a worldview that may be called humane Darwinism, a delighted observation of changing and mingling life, whether vegetal, animal or human, urban or rural.

Taut True Tales from the Northwest. Cody’s prose rings with a sense of place. He is a native speaker who probes the streams and woods and salmon that run to the heart of what it means to live and love, to work and play, in Oregon

Taut True Tales from the Northwest. His characters-from loggers to fishers to cowboys to the kids on his school bus-are smart and curious, often off-beat, always vivid. Cody brings the ear of a novelist and the eye of a reporter to the people and places that make the Northwest, and Northwest literature, distinctive. A rock, you know, will sink like a stone in water.

As I read Another Way the River Has - Taut True Tales from the Northwest, I found what felt to. .

As I read Another Way the River Has - Taut True Tales from the Northwest, I found what felt to be a kindred spirit: another Oregonian telling rich river stories. The First Oregonians (Laura Berg); Another Way The River Has (Robin Cody); Voyage of a Summer Sun (Robin Cody); Willamette Landings (Howard McKinley Corning); Steamboats on Northwest Rivers (Bill Gulick); Swift Flows the River (Nard Jones); The River Why (David James Duncan); Ricochet River (Robin Cody); Mink. River (Brian Doyle); Beyond the Ripples and My Music Man (Yours Truly). Originally published at dedemontgomery. com on December 28, 2018.

Another Way the River Has: Taut True Tales of the Northwest. Robin Cody’s characters are so vigorous and colorful they might have stepped from the pages of a Kesey novel. He champions those who need a voice: special education children, deaf basketball players, delinquent juveniles, and baseball umpires. The most unforgettable character is Cody himself – empathetic, clear-eyed and humorous.