JAMES DICKEY—Deliverance—1971 Dell PB—1st Edition Thus

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A FIRST EDITION THUS of the Dell Paperback version of: • “DELIVERANCE”(Dell, 1971) (Paperback, First Edition Thus) • BY JAMES DICKEY • ABOUT THIS COPY: UNREAD! There are some superficial flaws to the wraps/covers of this copy (please see photos & text below for details), but this is an UNREAD copy with a tight & uncreased spine & bright, clean pages. • ABOUT THIS TITLE: “Stomach-churning thrills…. A mind-shattering nightmare in the wilderness…. There are very few writers like JAMES DICKEY and few novels as suspenseful, as terrifying as good as DELIVERANCE. It begins as innocently as a Boy Scout hike; it ends after a perilously adventurous canoe trip that includes an unprovoed attack by malicious strangers…. I didn’t want to put it down. You won’t either.” —WASHINGTON POST • “Pure adventure. Human complexities. The extremities of fear and danger. An important book!”—CHICAGO TRIBUNE • “He was so smart and erudite he made you want to go out and eat a book of poetry. I thought DELIVERANCE was one of those perfectly made novels. He seemed to bind up and connect his talent for poetry. I remember the scene where ED climbs up to try to encounter the mountain man at night. I’m thinking, You can’t write much better than this.”—PAT CONROY • “Having constructed his first novel, which brilliantly achieves what it sets out to do, and having given us a breathtaking adventure that is also an acute comment on America, MR. DICKEY has discharged his responsibilities as a first novelist with power, skill and grace.” —L. E. SISSMAN, THE NEW YORKER • “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, dramatic, marvelous.”—HARPER’S MAGAZINE • “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 • “Brilliant.”—T.C. BOYLE • “A perfect book.”—WILLIAM G. TAPPLY, THE ARMCHAIR DETECTIVE • “A fine and honest book that hits the reader’s mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.” —THE NATION • “A harrowing trip few readers will forget.” —ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES • “Once read, never forgotten.” —NEWPORT NEWS DAILY PRESS • “[JAMES DICKEY’s] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.” —TIME MAGAZINE • “It is a masterpiece of immersion into the elements, into the psyches of his friends, and of the perverted brutality of the mountain characters they encounter. The river is a major player in the book and has alife of its own, representing eternity, life, and death. DICKEY’s detailed descriptions of it are seen and felt in every part of the reader’s senses.” —RON CLINTON SMITH, BLACK FOX LITERARY MAGAZINE (BLOG) • “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…. DICKEY wrote about men, neither dudes nor (although they were fathers) dads. The men in DELIVERANCE meet real monsters and recognize their ability to become, in DICKEY’s phrase, countermonsters…. It was an unsettling book that arrived, as if on cue, at an unsettled time. In its primitive violence readers caught echoes of Vietnam, the SHARON TATE murders, even of JOHN F. KENNEDY’S assassination.” —DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: “He topped six feet in height and 200 pounds in heft. His hobbies included lifting weights, bowhunting with, driving sports cars, playing the guitar, stalking rattlesnakes and shooting whitewater rapids while less than entirely sober. He was a lively public speaker, talking with obvious joy before college audiences in his mellow southern voice in a quest he referred to as ‘barnstorming for poetry.’ ”—WASHINGTON POST (THE AUTHOR’S OBITUARY, 1997) • “In his amplitude he was the closest thing the South had to a deep-fried NORMAN MAILER.” —DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES (2010) • “DICKEY’s about six foot three and weighs about two thirty, and I think he expected me to be much bigger than I was. I did a lot of standing on chairs and things when he came around.”—BURT REYNOLDS • “Pity the biographer of JAMES DICKEY. If this biographer gets all the far-flung outrageous stories on paper, then the life of JAMES DICKEY will make Ernest Hemingway look like a florist from the Midwest.”—PAT CONROY • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “DELIVERANCE” AUTHOR: JAMES DICKEY TYPE: MASS-MARKET PAPERBACK PAGES: 236 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Dell (New York), 1971 EDITION: First Edition Thus* *RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Dell Printing, March 1971.” NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy or a Book of the Month Club edition. ISBN: 440-01868-125 CONDITION OF WRAPS/COVERS: VERY GOOD. Corners & spine tips & edges are fine. Light scratching on front & back. The flaws are three small stains that appear on the front near the spine (& on the spine). The spine also has to other smaller, lighter stains, one at the top & on the bottom. (Please see photos.) If not for those, the outside covers would be VG+/VG++. (Inside covers are bright & clean.) CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF/INTERIOR: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square. Spine is very tight & uncreased. Text-block edges are painted green &, despite a few scuffs, they are sharp. All the pages are lightly age-toned, but they are also clean & bright with no writing, no doodling, no stains, no rips, no dog-ears, no foxing, & no foul odor. Despite the stain-blemishes on the front cover, this copy is…CLEARLY UNREAD. SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy mailer. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. 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End Time: 2024-09-08T17:58:13.000Z

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