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Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son
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Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son Paperback - 1999

by Christopher Dickey

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The author and his father, James Dickey, author of "Deliverance, " are profiled in this "story of . . . father and son . . . told with an unflinching rigor that most stories never attain" ("The Atlantic Monthly"). of photos.

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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, 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.

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The house at Litchfield had been neglected for a long time.

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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, 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.

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  • Title Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son
  • Author Christopher Dickey
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
  • Publication date August 4, 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780684855370 / 0684855372
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.74 x 6.04 x 0.8 in (22.20 x 15.34 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Ingram Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 22
  • New York Times, 08/01/1999, Page 20

About the author

Christopher Dickey, Newsweek's award-winning Paris bureau chief and Middle East editor, reports regularly from Baghdad, Cairo, and Jerusalem, and writes the weekly "Shadowland" column -- an inside look at the world of spies and soldiers, guerrillas and suicide bombers -- for Newsweek Online. He is the author of Summer of Deliverance, Expats, With the Contras, and the novel Innocent Blood. He lives in Paris.

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