Deliverance (2008)

Fiction / Action & Adventure, - Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, - Fiction / Psychological -

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James Dickey

11/19/2008
Overview
<b>“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.”—<i>Harper's Magazine</i></b><br><br> 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.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Deliverance</i></b><br><br>“Once read, never forgotten.”<b>—Newport News Daily Press<br></b><br>“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.”<b>—<i>The New Republic<br></i></b><br>“Freshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man.”<b>—<i>Southern Review<br></i></b><br>“A fine and honest book that hits the reader's mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.”<b>—<i>The Nation<br></i></b><br>“[James Dickey's] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.”<b>—<i>Time<br></i></b><br>“A harrowing trip few readers will forget.”<b>—</b><i>Asheville Citizen-Times</i><br><br>"A novel that will curl your toes . . . Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."<b>—<i>New York Times Book Review</i> </b><br><br>"A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."<b>—<i>The New Yorker</i></b>
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