Summer of Deliverance A Memoir of Father and Son |
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Author:
| Dickey, Christopher |
ISBN: | 978-0-684-85537-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1999 |
Publisher: | Simon & Schuster
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.99USD $18.99 |
Book Description:
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Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and, after the publication and subsequent film of his novel,
Deliverance, a wildly popular literary star. Drawing on letters, notebooks, diaries,...
More Description Summer of Deliverance is a powerful and moving memoir of anger, love, and reconciliation between a son and his father. Hailed as a literary genius of his generation, James Dickey created his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion. He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and, after the publication and subsequent film of his novel, Deliverance, a wildly popular literary star. Drawing on letters, notebooks, diaries, and his explicit conversations with his father, Christopher Dickey has crafted a superb memoir of the corrosive effects of fame, a moving remembrance of a crisis that united a family, and an inspiring celebration of love between father and son.