Deliverance by James Dickey 1978 James Dickey's first novel, the tale of soft suburbanites forced to kill or be killed along the rushing white waters of a wild Georgia river. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's 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. Pages in unmarked condition. Cover pages has crease at corner and small closed tear at edge of page. Cover has small creases at corners. Light chipping at bottom edge of front cover.