A quartet of novellas introduces some of Stephen King's most famous characters, including a teenager obsessed with his Nazi camp guard neighbor, a man falsely imprisoned, and four boys in search of a dead body, in a collection that includes "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," "Apt Pupil," "The Body," and "The Breathing Method." Reissue.
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Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas,
markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey.
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. 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.
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
trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.
These first three novellas have been made into well-received movies:
"Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" into Frank Darabont's 1994 The Shawshank Redemption (available as a screenplay, a DVD film, and an audiocassette), "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil (also released in 1998 on audiocassette), and "The Body" into Rob Reiner's Stand by Me (1986).
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. It's the tightest, most polished tale
in the collection. --Fiona Webster
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Triumphant ... Stephen King remains a master. -- New York Times An incredibly gifted writer. -- Guardian
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Biography
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of
them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Doctor Sleep and
Under the Dome, now a major TV miniseries on CBS. His novel 11/22/63 was
named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won
the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the
Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers
Association. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation
Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in
Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
