Cemetery Dance Publications has announced a brand new hardcover edition of the controversial novel The Woman by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee. The cloth-bound trade hardcover edition will include a bonus novella.
Although the Cemetery Dance trade hardcover edition will be issued unsigned, Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee have agreed to personally sign every copy that is pre-ordered during this week. To make this version extra special, Cemetery Dance will be printing a special signature sheet for the authors to sign, which will turn these copies into a very exclusive Limited Edition that is only sold for one week only and only on the Cemetery Dance website.
Description: The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast from Maine into Canada for years now. Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea.
Christopher Cleek is a slick, amoral — and unstable — country lawyer who, out hunting one day, sees her bathing in a stream. Fascinated, he follows her to her cave.
Cleek has many dark secrets and to these he’ll add another. He will capture her, lock in his fruit cellar, and tame her, civilize her. To this end he’ll enlist his long-suffering wife Belle, his teenage son and daughter Brian and Peg, and even his little girl Darlin’, to aid him.
So the question becomes, who is more savage? The hunter or the game?
Previously, The Woman was only available as an ultra-expensive deluxe edition with a tiny print run and did not include the bonus novella.
You can pre-order here: The Woman
What an intense film, and I plan to read the book, but can someone enlighten me about the ending…SPOILERS!!!!!
First, I understand that the feral child living with the dogs is more than likely a birth of incest, going along with the daughter being pregnant from the father, but as much as I enjoyed the film, the ending sort of lost it for me. The woman takes the feral child, I get that, but what is the purpose of having the youngest and teen daughters taste blood off her finger, then walking off with the youngest child and the feral child with the older daughter slowly following behind? Does the book do a better job with this?