New York, NY: Simon and Schuster (1998)

First Edition. Signed.

Fine in dust jacket.

One of the literary geniuses of his generation, James Dickey produced his art and lived his life with a ferocious passion.

He was a heavy drinker, a destructive husband and father, a poet of grace and sensitivity, and -- with the publication of his first novel, Deliverance -- a popular literary star. Now Christopher Dickey re-creates his father's world of Southern intellectuals and backwoods rednecks, his brief, heady celebrity, his quick and second marriage, and his reckless decline into alcoholism.

From descriptions of Christopher's unconventional childhood, to moving memories of the crisis that reunited father and son, Dickey reveals the corrosive effects of fame and the redemptive power of love.