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Deliverance

Deliverance

Deliverance
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Deliverance Paperback - 1994

by James Dickey

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  • Title Deliverance
  • Author James Dickey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 10th
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Delta, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date September 10, 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Z-005-2540
  • ISBN 9780385313872 / 038531387X
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.28 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 13.41 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Psychological Suspense
  • Library of Congress subjects Horror fiction, Adventure stories
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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Summary

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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Reader reviews for Deliverance

From the publisher

"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

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Media reviews

"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

"A novel stunning power."—The Nation

"A tour de force."—New Republic

About the author

James Dickey was born in Atlanta. One of America's best known poets and a winner of the National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice, he is the author of the National bestseller To The White Sea, a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Carolina Professor and Poet-in-Residence at the university of South Carolina.
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