Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Hard Cover. Book Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Bacon, Paul (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing. Publisher's light beige cloth, lettered in green; in the original black pictorial dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon Studios, lettered in green. Unclipped dust jacket, with bright spine, rubbing and light creasing to the panel edges and spine ends, protected by Mylar cover. A bright and attractive copy of Dickey's first novel. Deliverance is the debut novel of James Dickey, who had already established his literary reputation as an award-winning poet when he began working on this text in 1962. It tells the story of four middle-aged businessmen from Georgia who go canoeing in a river that is set to be dammed soon. In a clash between urban and rural, the men's recreational trip quickly takes a turn for the worst and develops into a frightening tale of death and disaster. Interestingly, Deliverance is often compared to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for its similar exploration of how civilized men's primal instincts are brought to the forefront when they are placed in extremely wild settings. In 1972, Deliverance was adapted into a film of the same name under the direction of John Boorman., ISBN13: B00XUYVTGM ISBN10: B00XUYVTGM Material Type: hardcover