Summer of Deliverance A Memoir of Father and

Summer of Deliveranceis 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.

Christopher Dickey is Newsweek's Bureau Chief in Paris and its former Bureau Chief in Cairo. He is the author of two previous nonfiction books, With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua and Expats: Travels in Arabia, from Tripoli to Teheran, and a novel, Innocent Blood.

CONTENTS

Overtures

FATHERS

The Landings
The Collector
Root-Light
Flight School
The Color of Rust
All Saints

SONS

The Two-Car Garage
Serpents
Bring Home the Coke
Loners
God's Script
Moonshine

RIVALS

Positano
Barnstorming
The Night Pool
The Corvette
Apollo
At the River
The Cutting Room
Resting Place

ENEMIES

The Canoe Beneath the Hammock
Re-enactment
Women
The Sudanese Dagger
The Sea and Old Men

FATHER AND SON

Vectoring
The Nightmare Life in Death
Walls of Books
Closings

Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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Summer of Deliverance A Memoir of Father and Son

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