| Deliverance Contributor(s): Dickey, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 038531387X ISBN-13: 9780385313872 Publisher: Delta OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Released for the first time in trade paperback, this is the classic tale of four men caught in a primitive and violent test of manhood.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.55 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 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 |