"A novelist of power and skill. A marvel of description that will make your muscles ache. A brilliant and breathtaking adventure." – The New Yorker
"A novel of stunning power." – The Nation
"Stomach-churning thrills...A mind-shattering nightmare in the wilderness, surging ahead on sheer power...there are few writers like James Dickey and few novels as successful, as terrifying and as good as Deliverance." – Washington Post
"A novel that will curl your toes...Dickey's canoe rides to the limits of dramatic tension." – New York Times Book Review
"You're hooked, you feel every cut, grope up every cliff, swallow water with every spill of the canoe, sweat with every draw of the bowstring. Wholly absorbing [and] dramatic." – Harper's Magazine
"A tour de force." – New Republic
"Freshly and intensely alive . . . with questions that haunt modern urban man." – Southern Review
"[James Dickey's] language has descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing." – Time