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Deliverance

James Dickey

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#2662 of 8,085 books · #846 in Crime & Thriller

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1971).

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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Publisher
Delta
ISBN-13
9780307483706
Topics
SurvivalMan vs. natureViolence and its psychological toll

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