So he didn't insist or anything. He just began crying. He couldn't help it. He was thinking about Lizzy and about his morn and dad, and he did it as quietly as he could, not wanting them to think of him as just a kid-and after a while he guessed he just started to accept it, felt his sadness yield to something else inside because he'd seen what his room was like and that was how they all were, all the women.
At the bridge they stopped and the Guardsman checked their car and then waved them through.
It was over.
On the Fort Lee side a pretty big crowd had gathered behind the Guard troops as the cars came across the bridge and some of the people standing there were waving and smiling as though they were heroes or something, which was pretty stupid. And some of them were women. And this one woman who was young and pretty with long dark hair, sort of like his morn had looked in some of the old photos they'd had, leaned in the window of the Buick and smiled at him, a sympathetic smile but like she was happy for him too, and of course by then they'd already surrendered up the pistol to the Guardsman at the entrance to the bridge, which was probably all for the best Andy thought-because more than anything else in the world he'd have liked to kill her.
by Jack Ketchum.
The first hardcover edition of JACK KETCHUM's third novel COVER.
published by Gauntlet Press. The book, about the disintegration of a Vietnam War veteran, first published by Ballantine as a paperback in 1987 has long been out of print and copies are near impossible to obtain. As with all Gauntlet titles, this is a definitive edition of the novel, not simply a signed limited edition.
Aside from the book itself, Neal McPheeters has provided wonderful cover art and interiors. Jack Ketchum has a long introduction discussing his research for the book, and Thomas Tessier has written a wonderfully insightful afterword. Ketchum, Tessier and McPheeters have all signed the book.
But, there's more. There's a never-before published self-portrait of the author, drawn in 1970. And, there's additional written material Jack Ketchum wrote in the late-sixties and early-seventies when the war in Vietnam was at its peak. This material, which he calls EPHEMERA, provides a remarkable insight into the author and has never been published before. Lastly, Ketchum has given us the mock-up drawings from Ballantine for the book they wanted to call Stalking Ground.
The author's introduction discusses this in detail.
COVER comes in two states:.
1000 copy numbered edition with all of the above (except the Ketchum self-portrait). One McPheeters interior illo is included in the numbered edition. Signed by Ketchum, Tessier and McPheeters. And, the free chapbook, if ordered through Gauntlet. Special price, mention this ad from Ladies' Night and get the numbered edition of Cover for just $40.00 + $4.00 postage.
52 copy leather bound, tray cased lettered edition that includes everything from the numbered edition, plus an additional McPheeters interior, additional EPHEMERA (never before published), Ketchum's self-portrait, a 30-minute reading from the book by the author on CD, and the free chapbook if ordered through Gauntlet. Special price, mention this ad from Ladies' Night and get the lettered edition Cover for just $125.00 + $5.00 p& h. These copies are going fast.." a word to the wise.
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