| Publisher | Dark Regions Press |
|---|---|
| Limited Edition | 26 lettered copies |
| Year | 2017 |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Pages | 256 |
| Country | USA |
Holt Idény (Off Season) (Hungary)
Hungarian edition of Off Season, translated by Rusnyák Csaba.
Off Season 35th Anniversary Edition
The 35th Anniversary edition of Off Season includes the author’s originally intended version of the novel (unexpurgated), a new short story based in the Off Season universe, a new afterword from the author, the novelette, Winter Child, five full-page interior illustrations by Tomislav Tikulin and stunning full color wraparound dust jacket artwork by David Stoupakis.
Contents
- Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition
- Afterword: from Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition
- By Way of an Introduction (A preamble to Winter Child)
- Winter Child
- End Game (An original tie-in short story, and perhaps the last of Dead River)
- Life Among the Cannibals (Reflecting on 35 Years of the Dead River Series)
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Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition
This edition restores cuts made for the original Ballantine paperback edition.
From the Afterword:
“I have very few regrets as a writer…A particularly graceless line here and there. An occasional bad edit. And that’s about it except for what happened to Off Season. What happened, exactly, was negotiation.
When Marc Jaffe at Ballantine bought the book it was on the condition that I’d be willing to rewrite. And I was. Of course I was. It was my first novel and I was delighted to have the contract. Did they think I was crazy? I’d rewrite in a minute. We were all very much aware that the book was over-the-top violence-wise, that it had the kind of teeth pretty much unseen before in mass-market fiction. It was just that quality that they were buying. But I knew I’d have to make some cuts.
I just wasn’t prepared for them to want so many.
…There were times we fought through paragraphs line by line. Word by word.
…This went on for a couple of weeks.
By then my manuscript was sporting a lot of red ink. [The editor’s] notepad had a lot of scratch-outs.
When it was over I went home and a few weeks later produced [this] version of Off Season… The original I tossed in the garbage.
Yeah, yeah, I know. You don’t have to tell me. I’m an asshole. What can I say?