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James Dickey

2001-09-08 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2001-09-08
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 65X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis James Dickey by : Henry Hart

Download or read book James Dickey written by Henry Hart. This book was released on 2001-09-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century. The legendary Southern poet James Dickey never shied away from cultivating a heroic mystique. Like Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway, he earned a reputation as a sportsman, boozer, war hero, and womanizer as well as a great poet, novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. But James Dickey made lying both a literary strategy and a protective camouflage; even his family and closest friends failed to distinguish between the mythical James Dickey and the actual man. Henry Hart sees lying as the central theme to Dickey's life; and in this authoritative, immensely entertaining biography he delves deep behind Dickey's many masks. Letters, anecdotes, tall tales and true ones, as well as the reluctant but finally candid cooperation of Dickey himself animate Hart's narration of a remarkable life. Readers of Dickey's National Book Award-winning poetry, his bestselling novel Deliverance, and anyone who witnessed his electrifying readings of his work will savor this book.

Deliverance

2008-11-19 Fiction
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Release : 2008-11-19
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 703/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Deliverance by : James Dickey

Download or read book Deliverance written by James Dickey. This book was released on 2008-11-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic.”—Harper's Magazine The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states 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. Praise for Deliverance “Once read, never forgotten.”—Newport News Daily Press “A tour de force . . . How a man acts when shot by an arrow, what it feels like to scale a cliff or to capsize, the ironic psychology of fear: these things are conveyed with remarkable descriptive writing.”—The New Republic “Freshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man.”—Southern Review “A fine and honest book that hits the reader's mind with the sting of a baseball just caught in the hand.”—The Nation “[James Dickey's] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing.”—Time “A harrowing trip few readers will forget.”—Asheville Citizen-Times "A novel that will curl your toes . . . Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension."—New York Times Book Review "A brilliant and breathtaking adventure."—The New Yorker

Summer of Deliverance

2010-10-12 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2010-10-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 592/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Summer of Deliverance by : Christopher Dickey

Download or read book Summer of Deliverance written by Christopher Dickey. This book was released on 2010-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Buckdancer's Choice

1965-12 Poetry
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Release : 1965-12
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 280/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Buckdancer's Choice by : James Dickey

Download or read book Buckdancer's Choice written by James Dickey. This book was released on 1965-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Direct and dramatic poems point out the contrasts and agonied of this amoral age.

The Complete Poems of James Dickey

2013 Poetry
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Release : 2013
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 979/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Complete Poems of James Dickey by : James Dickey

Download or read book The Complete Poems of James Dickey written by James Dickey. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes a foreword by poet Richard Howard, president of the PEN American Center and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his 1969 collection, Untitled Subjects.

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