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Deliverance by James DickeyRead about the other books on the list.
I recently revisited this 1970 novel and found it even better than I'd remembered. Dickey's line-to-line writing is sublime without ever getting in the way, and his depiction of four men reverting to the primitive while on a Georgia canoe trip is telling and well measured — Lord of the Flies peopled with adults.
Deliverance is one of Pat Conroy's six favorite books.
--Marshal Zeringue