The release date for the English version of 'Different Seasons' by
Stephen King is Feb 1995. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
includes the fictitious Maine hamlet of Castle Rock as the setting for the tales "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption."
A collection of four novellas by Stephen King, dubbed "hypnotic" (The New York Times Book Review) and serving as the basis for the movies Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption, are connected by the passage of time. Each novella explores the theme of a journey, albeit with remarkably distinct characters and tones.
Beginning with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," which serves as the inspiration for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominated film The Shawshank Redemption, this tense compilation follows an unjustly imprisoned criminal as he pursues an unusual and shocking form of retribution.
Next comes "Apt Pupil," which served as the basis for the film of the same name, which centers on Todd Bowden, a top student at a local high school, and his fixation with the sinister and lethal history of an elderly man.
In "The Body," four boisterous young boys break through a tiny town's facade and encounter life, death, and the beginnings of their own mortality. Stand By Me, based on this book, is a movie.
Finally, in "The Breathing Method," a humiliated lady is resolved to overcome death.
"What makes Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is is not only the instant sense of communication with his characters, but also the wondrous readability of his work," the Houston Chronicle exclaimed over Different Seasons.