Different Seasons: Hope Springs Eternal: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption; Summer of Corruption: Apt Pupil; Fall from Innocence: The Body; A Winter's Tale: The Breathing Method
New York: Viking Press, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2308144
ISBN: 0670272663
First edition. Minor smudge to front board, jacket price clipped, otherwise a nice copy, with none of the foxing along the edges one so commonly sees with King's books. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.
527, [1] pp. 8vo. Includes three stories that were adapted into films. "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, "Apt Pupil" into Bryan Singer's 1998 film Apt Pupil, 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 CONTENTS: Hope Springs Eternal: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption; Summer of Corruption: Apt Pupil; Fall from Innocence: The Body; A Winter's Tale: The Breathing Method. Afterword by Stephen King.
Price: $175.00