Summer of Deliverance - by Christopher Dickey (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The author and his father, James Dickey, author of "Deliverance, " are profiled in this "story of . . . father and son . . . told with an unflinching rigor that most stories never attain" ("The Atlantic Monthly"). of photos.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Summer of Deliverance</i> is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and, after the publication and subsequent film of his novel, <i>Deliverance, </i> a wildly popular literary star. Drawing on letters, notebooks, diaries, and his explicit conversations with his father, Christopher Dickey has crafted a superb memoir of the corrosive effects of fame, a moving remembrance of a crisis that united a family, and an inspiring celebration of love between father and son<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and, after the publication and subsequent film of his novel, Deliverance, a wildly popular literary star. Drawing on letters, notebooks, diaries, and his explicit conversations with his father, Christopher Dickey has crafted a superb memoir of the corrosive effects of fame, a moving remembrance of a crisis that united a family, and an inspiring celebration of love between father and son.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>David Bottoms <i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i> An exquisite balance of blistering candor and healing grace....Writing so wonderful that it simply transcends the limits of the genre.<br><br>David Kirby <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> Angry, affectionate...both gut-wrenching and hypnotic. A father-son conflict worthy of the pen of Sophocles.<br><br>Joseph P. Kahn <i>The Boston Globe</i> As unsentimental a father-son memoir as one can imagine. James Dickey may have died a broken man, but he was given a tremendous opportunity to get at least one thing right. By the evidence of this book, he succeeded, too.<br><br>Elizabeth Hardwick A heartbreaking, eloquent memoir by the son of the heartbreaking, eloquent poet, James Dickey.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Christopher Dickey</b>, <i>Newsweek</i>'s award-winning Paris bureau chief and Middle East editor, reports regularly from Baghdad, Cairo, and Jerusalem, and writes the weekly Shadowland column -- an inside look at the world of spies and soldiers, guerrillas and suicide bombers -- for <i>Newsweek</i> Online. He is the author of <i>Summer of Deliverance, Expats, With the Contras, </i> and the novel <i>Innocent Blood.</i> He lives in Paris
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