Deliverance - Softcover

Dickey, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747578699 ISBN 13: 9780747578697

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

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 this title

From the Publisher:

"A novel that will curl your toes...Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."--The New York Times Book Review

"A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."--The New Yorker

"A novel stunning power."--The Nation

"A tour de force."--The New Republic

From the Inside Flap:

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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0747578699
• ISBN 13: 9780747578697
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252