Read By: Robert O'Keefe

The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's 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.

.Deliverance. is the kind of novel few serious writers attempt any longer,
a book about wilderness and survival whose DNA contains shards of both .Heart
of Darkness. and .Huckleberry Finn.....Deliverance. has its narrative eddies,
and moments where its backwoods mysticism is ripe. But Dickey.s moral awareness
infuses this book with grainy life; guilt and blame are not easily assigned.
The book presents a quagmire none of its characters escape. In 2010, it.s
lonely work looking for its serious successors. -- The New York Times on the
40th anniversary of "Deliverance" (August 24, 2010)

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