Deliverance by James Dickey
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 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 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
JAMES DICKEY, born in Atlanta in 1923, is most widely known as the author of the novel and screenplay Deliverance. He is also the author of several other novels and fifteen books of poetry. His many honors include the National Book Award and a Melville Cane Award for Buckdancer's Choice (1965). He was invited to read at President Carter's inauguration in 1977, and most recently served as Judge of the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series. He died in 1997 in South Carolina. ROBERT KIRSCHTEN is the author of James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy of the Earth: A Reading of the Poems (1988) and Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A.R. Ammons and James Dickey (1998) and the editor of Struggling for Wings: The Art of James Dickey (1997) and Critical Essays on James Dickey (1994). He teaches English at Ohio State University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385313872 |
| ISBN 10 | 038531387X |
| Title | Deliverance |
| Author | James Dickey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Year published | 1994-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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