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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

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