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Four novellas, including Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption, and Apt Pupil.

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Synopsis

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, Amazon

Quotes from the Book

"Either get busy living or get busy dying."

"I hope the Pacific is as blue as is has been in my dreams. I hope."

"Dolorously, Termont's voice floated back: 'Smells like shit. Oh God, that's what it is, it's shit, oh my God lemme outta here I'm gonna blow my groceries oh shit it's shit oh my Gawwwwwd -' And then came the unmistakable sound of Rory Termont losing his last couple of meals."

"Some things are just to beautiful to be caged."

"Remember that hope is a good thing... maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

"Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free."

"The collossal prick even managed to sound magnanamous."