{"product_id":"books-deliverance-by-james-dickey","title":"Deliverance","description":"\u003cb\u003eYou'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.--\u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDeliverance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce read, never forgotten.\u003cb\u003e--Newport News Daily Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fine and honest book that hits the reader's mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e James Dickey's] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA harrowing trip few readers will forget.\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsheville Citizen-Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel that will curl your toes . . . Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA brilliant and breathtaking adventure.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670805995793,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780385313872.jpg?v=1781512960","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-deliverance-by-james-dickey","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}