Title: Deliverance (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) Pdf
Author: James Dickey
Published Date: 1970
Page: 278
“You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper's Magazine“Once read, never forgotten.”—Newport News Daily Press“How a man acts when shot by an arrow, what it feels like to scale a cliff or to capsize, the ironic psychology of fear: these things are conveyed with remarkable descriptive writing.”—The New Republic“Freshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man.”—Southern Review“A fine and honest book that hits the reader's mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.”—The Nation“[James Dickey's] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.”—Time“A harrowing trip few readers will forget.”—Asheville Citizen-Times"A novel that will curl your toes . . . Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."—New York Times Book Review "A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."—The New Yorker "A tour de force."—New Republic "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
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.
Praise for Deliverance
“Once read, never forgotten.”—Newport News Daily Press
“A tour de force . . . How a man acts when shot by an arrow, what it feels like to scale a cliff or to capsize, the ironic psychology of fear: these things are conveyed with remarkable descriptive writing.”—The New Republic
“Freshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man.”—Southern Review
“A fine and honest book that hits the reader's mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.”—The Nation
“[James Dickey's] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.”—Time
“A harrowing trip few readers will forget.”—Asheville Citizen-Times
"A novel that will curl your toes . . . Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."—New York Times Book Review
"A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."—The New Yorker
Deliverance I usually like to read the book before viewing the movie, but with it's popularity it was hard to create an opinion that is not related to the Academy Award nominated film. This book was fantastic!James Dickey does an excellent job of developing the characters, scenery, and emotion in this book. Written from the view point of Ed, our hero and voice of reasoning, the author leads the reader through a barrage of scenarios, disturbances and experiences that direct the reader through a roller coaster of thrills and chills. His group of friends eventually become disbanded, and day to day living becomes a challenge due to haunting memories that exist around every corner. So, "where you goin' city boy", grab a copy of this book, and begin the adventure.A classic and must read When the movie Deliverance was first out at the theaters, I went to see it. Back then, it was a fantastic, state of the art movie. I had yet to read the book. After Burt passed away it was suggested to me to read the book and watch the movie again. The book goes into great detail, much more than the movie and it is a very good read. After watching the movie again, it wasn't quite as good as it was back in the 70's but still enjoyable nonetheless.Be careful of journeys into the wilderness Probably like everyone else, I watched the movie first, then read the book. They are both great and subtly different. The movie strikes me as a bit more ambiguous than the book, reflecting a foreigner's interest and mixed feelings on things (wilderness, Americana, weekend warriors) that we natives may take for granted. The book much more takes the perspective of Ed (Jon Voight), who is definitely trapped in corporate existential malaise. It's interesting that the "deliverance" in the title is never mentioned in the canoe trip (which comprises almost the entire movie), but instead during the sex scene between Ed and his wife just before he goes on the canoe trip. The deliverance he experiences is an orgasm while having sex with his wife and thinking about the adolescent girl and "her golden eye" he had just taken pictures of for his magazine. It's a great image of this middle class, middling American fantasizing of something, someone, anyone that can supply the meaning (the "gold") of life. Well, he goes searching/digging for gold so to speak in the primitive reaches of the state and his psyche. Those with a psychological bent will be inclined to see the whole episode as a Jungian journey into the unconscious with the various facets of Ed's personality being integrated (Lewis), expelled (Bobby), or killed (Drew). Psychology or not, it's a gripping and well-written tale.
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