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Different Seasons

Four Novellas
By Stephen King
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Different Seasons is a gripping collection of four novellas by Stephen King, each inspired by a different season and linked by themes of journeys and transformation. It features "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," where an unjustly imprisoned man plots a remarkable revenge; "Apt Pupil," exploring a high school student's chilling obsession with a dark past; "The Body," following four boys confronting mortality on a life-changing adventure (the basis for Stand By Me); and "The Breathing Method," about a woman's determined struggle against death.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Different Seasons is 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.

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.

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.

In "The Body," four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me.

Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in "The Breathing Method."

"The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is," hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501143489

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 March 2016

Imprint: Scribner Book Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 553g

Pages: 608

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Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Stephen King

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). 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. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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