259 pages
English language
Published Aug. 8, 1970 by Hamish Hamilton.
Deliverance
by James Dickey
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Deliverance (1970) is the debut novel of American writer James Dickey, who had previously published poetry. It was adapted as a 1972 film of the same named directed by John Boorman. In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library selected Deliverance as #42 on their list of the 100 best 20th-Century novels. In 2005, the novel was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923.
Subjects
- Male friendship -- Fiction.
- Appalachians (People) -- Fiction.
- Victims of violent crimes -- Fiction.
- Wilderness survival -- Fiction.
- Canoes and canoeing -- Fiction.
- Male rape victims -- Fiction.
- Georgia -- Fiction.