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.
He struggles to adjust to prison life, and Red believes he might be innocent after all.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. Andy maintains that he’s innocent though the evidence against him is overwhelming. Andy Dufresne is serving life imprisonment for killing his wife, Linda, and her tennis-playing lover. Red’s a cold man, but even he’s affected by the arrival of a new inmate at the prison.
He tells the reader how he murdered his wife but accidentally killed a neighbor and her child. He moves contraband within Shawshank Prison. The first novella, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, is narrated by a man called Red. King is an international best-selling horror and thriller writer whose books have inspired movies and TV series for decades. The book was a World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Anthology/Collection in 1982, and the first novella, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, inspired a major motion picture.
First published in 1982, the collection takes place over four seasons, moving from a man seeking revenge after wrongful imprisonment to a woman fighting against death. Different Seasons is a collection of four horror novellas by Stephen King.
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