New York, NY: Doubleday (1987)

First Edition.


The eagerly awaited new work from James Dickey, his first novel since the brilliant Deliverance. Alnilam is a startling rite of passage through the worlds of darkness and sight, a stunning portrait of one blind man's quest to learn the truth of his son's disappearance during World War II, a story told partly in parallel columns describing both the blind man's perceptions and the point of view of seeing characters.