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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451167538
ISBN: 0451167538
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: August 29, 1983
Publisher: Signet
Release Date: March 02, 2004
Sales Rank: 7463
Studio: Signet
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Four mesmerizing novellas, including the ones that inspired the movies The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, and Stand by Me.
Amazon.com Review:
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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Different Seasons collects four novellas by Stephen King although none of them can rightly be called horror stories. Of the four, three have been turned into movies. The first, "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" was developed into The Shawshank Redemption (Single Disc Edition) and if you've seen the movie you'll find it was a reasonably faithful rendition. As I read the story in it's first person narrative form, it was impossible to keep Morgan Freeman's voice out of my head (that's a good ... Read More
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This is a fine collection of four novellas from Stephen King. The best, "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" and "The Body," have both been adapted as films that can justifiably be regarded as modern classics ("The Shawshank Redemption" and "Stand by Me," respectively). These two stories are also early examples of King stepping outside the genre boundaries within which he had become such a literary megastar. Of the remaining stories, "Apt Pupil" is also a good tale and much more in line with ... Read More
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King's second collection of four novellas, or a couple of novellas and a couple of short novels, or three short novels and a novellas, or whatever you want to call them. He calls them the shorter version, deliberately giving the book a title not suggestion of 'telekinesis, vampires of telekinetic kids' as he details in the afterworld.
In a little bit of a departure, the first, and actually the best story is an odd sort of prison escape tale, no horror elements to be scene, beyond any ... Read More
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"Different Seasons" by Stephen King, © 1982
'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption'
This is a wonderful story. Andy Dufresne was tried and sentenced to spend a spell of time in prison. As it turns out, it was a true miscarriage of justice, but that happens and you just get on with your life. Red is the narrator and the closest thing Andy has to a friend in the klink. Mr. King must have done some research to get the feel and ambiance of prisons that pervades this story. ... Read More
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Different Seasons by Stephen King is one of my favorite collections of Short stories. The short stories include Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, which was the basis for the movie Shawshank Redemption, as well as the short story that the movie Stand By ME was based on. The other two short stories were less captivating, but it is definitely worth it for the two above mentioned stories.
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