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Deliverance

Deliverance

by James Dickey
Paperback
Publication Date: 10/09/1994

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"You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic."-Harper's Magazine

The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.

Praise for Deliverance

"Once read, never forgotten."-Newport News Daily Press

"A tour de force . . . How a man acts when shot by an arrow, what it feels like to scale a cliff or to capsize, the ironic psychology of fear: these things are conveyed with remarkable descriptive writing."-The New Republic

"Freshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man."-Southern Review

"A fine and honest book that hits the reader's mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand."-The Nation

"[James Dickey's] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing."-Time

"A harrowing trip few readers will forget."-Asheville Citizen-Times

"A novel that will curl your toes . . . Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."-New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."-The New Yorker
ISBN:
9780385313872
9780385313872
Category:
Thriller / suspense
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
10-09-1994
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
203x134x15mm
Weight:
0.22kg

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