Different seasons

From one of the greatest short story writers of all time comes this 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, including "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption": An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revengethe basis for the modern classic film The Shawshank Redemption..• "Apt Pupil": The inspiration for the harrowing film about a top high school student and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older local... "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-the story that became the movie Stand by Me... and The Breathing Method": A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over the natural order of things in order to save her child.