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One would also have to forgive the Indian subcontinent's most highly trained cardiologist for failing to recognize that It's me dickey ticker, doctor--which sounds as if the patient requires the services of a watch-repairer--is an allusion to longstanding heart disease.
Dickey Ticker
Critics draw parallels to Susan Cheever's memoir of her father, Home Before Dark , but find this book less shocking because unlike John Cheever, Dickey Sr.'s demons were widely publicized.
Book -- Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son , by Christopher Dickey;
Journalist Christopher Dickey's combination memoir and biography of his poet and novelist ( Deliverance ) father, James Dickey, is praised as a "loving, ruthless portrait" (Lance Morrow, Time ). Although he cleaned up his act a couple of years before dying, Dickey Sr. spent much of his life boozing, telling self-aggrandizing tall tales, and openly cheating on his wife.