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Many of the situations in Deliverance are reminiscent of the struggle between man and water presented in The Old Man and the Sea, often considered Ernest Hemingway's best book. The 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of an old fisherman and his struggle to stay alive while battling against nature in his small, primitive boat.

Contemporary poet Robert Bly has explored the theme of masculinity in his best-selling 1990 book Iron John: A Book about Men, where he mixes psychology, myth, anthropology, and literature to explain his theory of male sexual aggressiveness

Dickey's son, Newsweek Paris Bureau Chief Christopher Dickey, has published his memoir of life with his father. He especially focuses on the summer of 1971, when Deliverance was being made into a movie. He paints a portrait of a flawed, hard-working man in Summer of Deliverance- A Memoir of Father and Son, published in 1998...
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