Deliverance"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 |
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... hold time . " up , I think . It's been like it is for a good long " You know , " Lewis said , " I like this bow . You stand hold- ing it after you turn loose the string , thinking , what the hell . And then you look yonder and the ...
... hold time . " up , I think . It's been like it is for a good long " You know , " Lewis said , " I like this bow . You stand hold- ing it after you turn loose the string , thinking , what the hell . And then you look yonder and the ...
Page 72
... hold it . . . like you hold it . ” I got one foot out of the mud by driving the other one about twice as far down , and then grabbed a long branch and pulled myself up as best I could with the river holding on to me hard by the left leg ...
... hold it . . . like you hold it . ” I got one foot out of the mud by driving the other one about twice as far down , and then grabbed a long branch and pulled myself up as best I could with the river holding on to me hard by the left leg ...
Page 88
... hold of the top of the tent ; the cloth was trembling in a huge grasp . The sickening memory of where I was took hold of me from the inside of the heart . I groped down for the cold shank of the flashlight between the air sacks and ...
... hold of the top of the tent ; the cloth was trembling in a huge grasp . The sickening memory of where I was took hold of me from the inside of the heart . I groped down for the cold shank of the flashlight between the air sacks and ...
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