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.

Dickey’s acclaimed novel Deliverance exposes the primitive urges at work in even “civilized” men.

This story is included in the 'Modern Library 100 Best Novels'

ADVISORY: Mature subject matter