Deliverance - (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by James Dickey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Dickey's bestselling novel of four men caught in a violent test for manhood was produced as a blockbuster film starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight. A canoe trip down a wild North Georgia river turns into a primitive nightmare that will leave one man dead--and three men changed forever. "A brilliant and breathtaking adventure".--The New Yorker.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><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> <p/> 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. <p/><b>Praise for <i>Deliverance</i></b> <p/>"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> <p/>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> <p/>A brilliant and breathtaking adventure.<b>--<i>The New Yorker</i></b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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."<b>--<i>Harper's Magazine</i></b> <p/>"Once read, never forgotten."<b>--Newport News Daily Press<br></b><br>"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>--<i>Asheville Citizen-Times</i></b> <p/>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> <p/> A brilliant and breathtaking adventure.<b>--<i>The New Yorker</i></b> <p/> A tour de force.<b>--<i>New Republic</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>James Dickey was born in Atlanta. One of America's best known poets and a winner of the National Book Award for <i>Buckdancer's Choice</i>, he is the author of the National bestseller <i>To The White Sea</i>, a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Carolina Professor and Poet-in-Residence at the university of South Carolina.
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