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Deliverance - A Novel
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James Dickey |
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No copies available |
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Hardcover |
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1970 |
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B00136Z7US |
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Houghton Mifflin Company |
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1.58 pounds |
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6.57 x 9.13 x 1.11 inches |
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1 Nancy Lanyon (USA: WI) |
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1 Clampants (USA: MA) |
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Product Description
This is a heart stopping tour de force, an overpowering, unforgettable tale of violent adventure and inner discovery. Four men embark on a three-day canoe trip down a particularly wild section of a river in the heartland of today's south. They are, with one exception, seemingly average suburban Americans: a mutual funds salesman, a supervisor in a softdrink company, and a successful art director in a consulting firm who is the story's narrator. For them the trip represents a break in the domestic routine, a chance for adventure with few real risks, and the last occasion to see a beautiful valley unvisited and free before the river is dammed up. Their leader, an enthusiastic outdoorsman and champion archer, is obsessed by the desire to pit himself against nature. When, the morning of the second day, two of the group are attacked viciously and perversely by mountaineers, a mildly adventurous canoe trip explodes into a nightmare of horror and murder. Men stalk and are stalked by other men and the treacherous river becomes a graveyard for those without the strength or the luck to survive. The narrator, forced to assume the leadership of his group and to pursue a dangerous multiple deception, must call upon all his resources to try to achieve deliverance.
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