Deliverance, the debut novel by James Dickey, has reached the polished age of 50...First published in 1970, the novel was a critically acclaimed bestseller and boosted the growing celebrity of its author. However, the 1972 film, which Stephen Farber of The New York Times called the "most stunning piece of moviemaking released this year," quickly eclipsed the novel in the consciousness and imagination of the American movie-going public. Today, if you search for "Deliverance," you must scroll and click into the second page of Google results to find any lead articles about the novel--dominated so thoroughly on the internet by the film--making it easy to wonder if the novel will slip out of print, its semi-centennial unheralded.
S. Tremaine Nelson, Vanderbilt Magazine, Fall 2020
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