- Appalachians (People), Canoes and canoeing, Drama, Fiction
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's 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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Grave, earnest, classical in form and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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- Author
- James Dickey
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin, Amereon Ltd, Bt Bound
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780809310296
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“IT UNROLLED SLOWLY, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose.”
James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. He also received the Order of the South award. Dickey is best known for his novel Deliverance (1970), which was adapted into the acclaimed 1972 film of the same name.
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