Deliverance (The Armchair Detective Library) - Hardcover
Four suburban businessmen take a canoe trip along a Georgia river, an odyssey that pits their courage against the river's raging rapids and the most primitive human impulses of fear, lust, and murder
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"A novel that will curl your toes...Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."--The New York Times Book Review
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"A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."--The New Yorker
"A novel stunning power."--The Nation
"A tour de force."--The New Republic
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.
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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.
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- PublisherArmchair Detective Library
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 092289096X
- ISBN 13 9780922890965
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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