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Simon & Schuster, October 2010
eBook, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1439129592
ISBN-13: 9781439129593
Description
Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and, after the publication and subsequent film of his novel, Deliverance, a wildly popular literary star. Drawing on letters, notebooks, diaries, and his explicit conversations with his father, Christopher Dickey has crafted a superb memoir of the corrosive effects of fame, a moving remembrance of a crisis that united a family, and an inspiring celebration of love between father and son.
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Browse Inside Summer Of DeliveranceElizabeth Hardwick
A heartbreaking, eloquent memoir by the son of the heartbreaking, eloquent poet, James Dickey.
David Kirby
The New York Times Book Review
Angry, affectionate...both gut-wrenching and hypnotic. A father-son conflict worthy of the pen of Sophocles.
Joseph P. Kahn
The Boston Globe
As unsentimental a father-son memoir as one can imagine. James Dickey may have died a broken man, but he was given a tremendous opportunity to get at least one thing right. By the evidence of this book, he succeeded, too.
David Bottoms
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An exquisite balance of blistering candor and healing grace....Writing so wonderful that it simply transcends the limits of the genre.
Toronto Star Online, November 28, 2009
...an American beautiful loser, "a sort of Georgia cracker Kipling," said fellow poet, Robert Bly, dismissively. In Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son, Christopher Dickey – who worked on Deliverance 's set when he was 19 years ...
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