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Deliverance / by James Dickey.

Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dickey, James.
Contributor:
Bacon, Paul, 1923- Bookjacket designer.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Male friendship--Fiction.
Male friendship.
Appalachians (People)--Fiction.
Appalachians (People).
Victims of violent crimes--Fiction.
Victims of violent crimes.
Wilderness survival--Fiction.
Wilderness survival.
Canoes and canoeing--Fiction.
Canoes and canoeing.
Male rape victims--Fiction.
Male rape victims.
Georgia--Fiction.
Georgia.
Horror tales.
Adventure stories.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Dust jackets (Binding)
Physical Description:
278 p. ; 22 cm.
Place of Publication:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1970.
Summary:
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.
Notes:
Jacket by Paul Bacon Studios, Inc.
Local Notes:
Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
Cited in:
Fiction core collection. 16th ed., p. 168
ISBN:
9780385313872
038531387X
OCLC:
58614

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