Deliverance

278 pp. 8vo. Author's first novel, adapted to the film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, which was nominated for numerous awards, and imprinted an unsettling new context for the song Dueling Banjos on the collective consciousness. "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."