Deliverance

James Dickey

Houghton Mifflin, 1970 - Fiction - 278 pages

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.

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.

About the author

James Dickey was born in Atlanta. One of America's best known poets and a winner of the National Book Award for Buckdancer's Choice, he is the author of the National bestseller To The White Sea, 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Deliverance; Delta Fiction; Modern Library 100 Best Novels Series
• Author: James Dickey
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1970
• ISBN: 038531387X, 9780385313872
• Length: 278 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / General; Fiction / Psychological; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense