Losing Battles
Eudora Welty
Losing Battles by Eudora Welty is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Read Time: ~3.9 hr
Deliverance
by James Dickey (1970)
About this book
The setting is the Georgia wilderness, where the state's most remote white-water river awaits. In the thundering froth of that river, in its echoing stone canyons, four men on a canoe trip discover a freedom and exhilaration beyond compare. And then, in a moment of horror, the adventure turns into a struggle for survival as one man becomes a human hunter who is offered his own harrowing deliverance.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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