Different Seasons

by Stephen King

First published 1982 · 529 pages

About this book

Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four Stephen King novellas with a more dramatic bend, rather than the horror fiction for which King is famous. The four novellas are tied together via subtitles that relate to each of the four seasons.

[Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption][1]--the most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo.

[Apt Pupil][2]--a golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism.

[The Body][3]--four rambunctious young boys venture into the Maine woods and in sunlight and thunder find life, death, and intimations of their own mortality.

[The Breathing Method][4]--a tale told in a strange club about a woman determined to give birth no matter what. ([source][5])

  • first-person narrative
  • post-traumatic stress disorder
  • World War II
  • law school
  • Vietnam War
  • Germans
  • Nazis
  • war crime

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