description: 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.
language: English
title: Deliverance
titlecomplete: Deliverance
characters: Bobby Trippe, Drew Ballinger, Ed Gentry, Lewis Medlock
genres: Thriller, Southern, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Horror, Suspense, Classics, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 32107
places: Georgia
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Prix Médicis Etranger, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC