# Different Seasons

**Author(s):** Stephen King
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**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/different-seasons/verdict.json
**Genres:** wwii-fiction, serial-killer, fantasy, horror, thriller
**Pages:** 508
**Publisher:** Signet
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780451167538
**ISBN-10:** 0451167538
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/different-seasons

## Description

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])


  [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917488W/Rita_Hayworth_and_Shawshank_Redemption
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149093W/Apt_Pupil
  [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149108W/The_Body
  [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19652127W/The_Breathing_Method
  [5]: https://www.stephenking.com/library/story_collection/different_seasons.html

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