Deliverance

Name: Deliverance
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9780747578697
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By James Dickey

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Summary

A group of friends seeking a wilderness escape from their urban lives embark on a canoe trip down Georgia's Chattooga River. What begins as a weekend adventure swiftly turns into a harrowing ordeal, testing their resilience and altering their lives forever.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for readers who appreciate intense, psychological drama and adventure stories rooted in the natural world, as well as fans of classic American fiction and gripping survival tales.

The original novel that inspired John Boorman's Oscar-nominated film

Part of the incredibly exciting newly packaged Bloomsbury Film Classics series The original film starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight remains hugely popularJames Dickey is an award-winning and critically acclaimed novelist and poet

Description

A group of friends in search of the wilderness experience that is missing in their big-city lives get a lot more than they bargained for when canoeing one weekend on the Chattooga River in Georgia.

Deliverance, James Dickey's brilliant, horrific account of what occurred on the trip and its aftermath, was to become one of the iconic films of the twentieth century.

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Deliverance has been praised as ‘a brilliant and breathtaking adventure’ by The New Yorker and lauded for its dramatic tension and power by The New York Times Book Review, Nation, and New Republic, cementing its place as a compelling and intense narrative.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780747578697

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 September 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 211g

Pages: 256

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Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction James Dickey Literary Fiction

About the Author

James Dickey was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1923 and published his first book of poetry, Into the Stone, in 1960. In 1966 his Buckdancer's Choice won the National Book Award. His first novel, Deliverance, appeared in 1970. Dickey's magnificent poetry, criticism and fiction rank him among the seminal authors of our time.