{"product_id":"deliverance-a-novel","title":"Deliverance: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNational Book Award-winning author James Dickey's New York Times bestseller Deliverance is an unforgettable tale of violent action and profound inner discovery--the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film starring Burt Reynolds and John Voight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eONE OF MODERN LIBRARY'S 100 BEST NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST ENGLISH LANGUAGE NOVELS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour middle-class suburban men decide to embark on a three-day canoe trip down a particularly wild section of a river in Georgia. For Ed Gentry, Bobby Trippe, Drew Ballinger, and Lewis Medlock, the trip represents a break from their daily routines, a chance for adventure with few real risks, and the last occasion to see a beautiful valley before the river is dammed up. Lewis, an enthusiastic outdoorsman and champion archer, is obsessed by the desire to pit himself against nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen two of the friends are viciously attacked by mountain men, their mild adventure becomes a fight for their very lives. Men prey upon one another, the treacherous river becomes a graveyard for those without the strength or the luck to survive, and Ed, forced to lead his friends to safety, calls upon primal instincts buried within him to achieve deliverance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A mind-shattering nightmare in the wilderness, surging ahead on sheer power....There are few writers like James Dickey and few novels as successful, as terrifying, and as good as Deliverance.\" --Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51833649234222,"sku":"9780063319677","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1385\/1694\/files\/9780063319677.jpg?v=1773161760","url":"https:\/\/www.thebeeskneesemporium.ca\/products\/deliverance-a-novel","provider":"The Bee's Knees Books \u0026 Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}