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Description

Released for the first time in trade paperback, this is the classic tale of four men caught in a primitive and violent test of manhood. The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the states most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing... read more

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  • “language has a descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing”

First Sentence

IT UNROLLED SLOWLY, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose.

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  1. James Dickey (Author)
 

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