Deliverance
By James DickeyPublisher: Random House Publishing Group
EAN-13: 9780385313872ISBN-10: 0-385-31387-X
Book Description
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 DeliveranceOnce read, never forgotten.Newport News Daily PressA 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 RepublicFreshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man.Southern ReviewA 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.TimeA 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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