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...drugs. A Buffalo judge admitted portions of Fiedler's book into evidence at a trial in which the critic and his wife were convicted of allowing their sons and friends to smoke marijuana in their home. The jury chose to ignore Busted's preface, which warns the reader that "the following account is more parable than history...
...Yale and a happily-ever-after life, but just before he was to go to New Haven his father died and there was no money for college. O'Hara went on to a spectacularly varied assortment of jobs-freight clerk, steel-mill worker, soda jerk, gas-meter reader and deckhand-before turning to writing...
Primitive Struggle. That kind of chatter, as anyone's twelve-year-old adventure-story reader could tell, can only lead to trouble. Half the fun of reading Deliverance is watching an expert poet-turned-first-novelist deliver his creations into the hands of fate and fast water...
...point, Deliverance can bear comparison with both books. Ultimately, it fails where they succeed. Dickey's spare narrative-leisurely at the start, then frantic-rushes the reader forward like the accelerating flow of the river. Whether he is describing the soft but fond suburban world that the four men leave at home, or evoking the impact of the plunging water, his language has a descriptive power not often matched in contemporary American writing...
Happily, the lapse is short. Dickey's narrative, like the inexorable river, soon reasserts itself, rolling the reader and Dickey's survivors back to their own comfy suburban world...