Afterword by Stephen King.Includes the stories "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineĪ "hypnotic" ( The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas-including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption-from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. It's the tightest, most polished tale in the collection." - Fiona Webster CONTENTS: Hope Springs Eternal: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Summer of Corruption: Apt Pupil Fall from Innocence: The Body A Winter's Tale: The Breathing Method. The final novella, "Breathing Lessons," is a horror yarn told by a doctor, about a patient whose indomitable spirit keeps her baby alive under extraordinary circumstances.
These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies: "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont's 1994 The Shawshank Redemption, "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil, and "The Body" into Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986). The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy's corpse.
The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. "Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. Includes three stories that were adapted into films. In "The Body," four rambunctious young boys plunge through the fa Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Next is "Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. This gripping collection begins with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption.
Includes the stories "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption"-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine A "hypnotic" ( The New York Times Book Review ) collection of four novellas-including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption -from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.
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