THE POTLATCH RUN

First edition (stated). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket mildly faded on the spine, rubbed on the flap folds and spine ends, and showing a small crease on the inside flap. "This is the U.S.A. of skirmish and encounter and it is savagely captured via Mr. Price's undemonstrative style. His characters are remarkably real, considering the excesses he puts them through. Cleve is the Indian whose father ""married one of the richest orchards in the Wemimalla Valley."" He's un-uptight about his father trying to be white, a bit proud of his half-sister Fawn, the new Apple Blossom Princess of the area, and he's AWOL from an unrewarding Army life. Thumbing his way home he joins up with Colin Kelly Barnhover, a young refugee from the East who drives a white Cadillac and believes in humanitarian murder. With Colin is ""Echo,"" a fourteen-year-old nymph whom Colin has liberated from her father. Along the way they pick up two other Indian women and a child and Cleve discovers Colin's unusual proclivities. Cleve chooses to ride with it toward an oddly structured, indeterminate end for a book with a definite resonance."--Kirkus.…