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        Deliverance


        setting

        Cahulawassee River, Georgia

        time

        1960s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1970

        page count

        278

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Lewis, Bobby, Drew, Ed

        Rip's impressions

        Written by a poet––no waste of words. Descriptive imagery, amazing in clarity of detail,and also plenty of drama and action. This novel deserves to be rediscovered.

        first line

        It unrolled slowly, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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