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Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son by Christopher Dickey (Simon & Schuster 1998) (Biography) is the author and journalist Christopher Dickey's farewell to. 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. Summer of Deliverance Forty years ago, a film appeared on the big screen which caused theater-goers to squirm with angst—not from some imaginative sci-fi scenario, but because the sequence of terrifying events could easily be related to real-life possibilities, particularly for. Summer of deliverance: a memoir of father and son Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! The Deliverance Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you.

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Christopher Dickey discussed his book, [Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of

Father and Son], published by Simon and Schuster. The book had originally begun as description of the making of the movie of his father, James Dickey’s, novel Deliverance, but grew into a detailed description of his conflict with his father and their reconciliation. close

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