![]() ![]() He gets out his own guitar and plays a duet with the boy, who appears to be intellectually disabled, maybe inbred, but with great musical skills. At a gas station in a mountain hamlet, Drew sees a local albino boy playing a banjo. The men drive into the mountains with two canoes. Besides Ed, the protagonists are insurance salesman Bobby Trippe, soft drink executive Drew Ballinger, and landlord Lewis Medlock, a physically fit outdoorsman who has promoted the canoe trip. It's a last chance to travel on this wild river, which is scheduled to be dammed to create a reservoir and generate hydropower. ![]() Narrated in the first person by Ed Gentry, a graphic artist and one of the four main characters, the novel opens with him and three friends, all middle-aged men who live in a large city in Georgia, planning a weekend canoe trip down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the northwest Georgia wilderness. In 2005, the novel was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. ![]() In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library selected Deliverance as #42 on their list of the 100 best 20th-Century novels. It was adapted into the 1972 film of the same name directed by John Boorman. Deliverance (1970) is the debut novel of American writer James Dickey, who had previously published poetry. ![]()
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