From one of the greatest short story writers of all time, a spellbinding collection of four novellas bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.

Different Seasons begins with "Rita Hayworth and 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. 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. In "The Body," four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the acclaimed movie Stand by Me. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in "The Breathing Method."

(From the back cover)