Books by Clyde Rice
All books are available at $10.00/copy plus $5.00 postage and handling. To order, add to cart and check out using your PayPal account, or send order request and check to Friends of Clyde Rice / 520 Yamhill, Roof Ste 1 / Portland, OR 97204 . Books are also offered as gifts for various levels of donation. You can download donation form HERE.
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A Heaven in the Eye tells the story of Clyde's early life from 1918 to 1934 and takes place in Oregon and Northern California. Forester, frolicker on the Clackamas River, Portland Art Museum School student, deckhand and officer on the San Francisco Bay ferries before the Golden Gate Bridge, laborer and goat rancher during the Great Depression, Clyde Rice renders a beautiful and detailed tapestry of an era and a life that transcends personal journalism and history to become a literary work of distinction. Sensitive, callous, lusty, shy, and a natural storyteller, Clyde presents life as it is: rich, varied, enigmatic, and always as it aspires to survival and joy. (Breitenbush Books, 1984)
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Nordi's Gift is the continuation of Clyde's autobiography. Clyde, his wife Nordi, and their young son Bunky have returned to Oregon from California. Clearing a stump ranch, finding property on the Clackamas River, building his family a rammed-earth house, enlisting in the shipyards, building and then losing a 46-foot fishing boat, all become the backdrop for one of the greatest and most heartbreaking love stories of our time. Clyde begins to fall in love with his Nordi's niece, Ginny. Torn by guilt he retreats to make a decision. Nordi's Gift describes the ultimate outcome of that decision. (Breitenbush Books, 1985)
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Night Freight is novella-length memoir that takes place during the Great Depression. Clyde leaves his wife and son in Tiburon while he searches for gold in the Siskiyous. His journey is ill-fated and he longs to return to Nordi and Bunky, and does so by riding a night freight through the Sierras, where he forms a bond of survival with a veteran drifter, a teenage boy, and an alcoholic. (Breitenbush Books, 1987)
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