Deliverance Author:James Dickey Four solid citizens of suburbia go canoeing down a wild North Georgia river. Two are waylaid, forced to sodomy at shotgun pointby two degraded but believable mountaineers, and their companions kill one w/ an arrow intended for a deer. You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water w/ every spill of the canoe, sweat w/ eve... more »ry draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing, dramatic, marvelous.« less