Different Seasons
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| Author | Stephen King |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Drama novel |
| Publisher | Viking |
| Publication date | 1982 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-670-27266-3 |
Different Seasons (1982) is a novella collection by Stephen King containing the following stories:
- Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (subtitled: Hope Springs Eternal)
- Apt Pupil (subtitled: Summer of Corruption)
- The Body (subtitled: Fall From Innocence)
- The Breathing Method (subtitled: A Winter's Tale)
Three movies, The Shawshank Redemption (based on Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption), Apt Pupil, and Stand By Me (based on The Body), were made based on the stories from this book.
To date (2008), The Breathing Method has not been film-adapted. The story is inspired by the five elderly recanteurs in Peter Straub's 1979 novel Ghost Story. In King's case, one such man tells his presumably autobiographical tale at a highbrow gentlemen's club (an inspiration from The Chowder Society in Straub's novel). The horror tale within the story itself recounts how, some sixy-years in the past, one of the male members (presently a retired physician) once helped a mysterious woman deliver her baby even after the mother-to-be had been decapitated in an automobile accident.
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- ISBN 0-670-27266-3 (cloth text, 1982)
- ISBN 0-606-00788-1 (prebound, 1982)
- ISBN 0-451-16753-8 (mass market paperback, 1983, reprint)
- ISBN 0-451-19712-7 (mass market paperback, 1998)
- ISBN 0-7862-2630-7 (hardcover, 2000, Large Type Edition)
- ISBN 0-7515-0433-5 (paperback, 2003)
Spanish Edition for Latin America divided the book in two editions: "Primavera - Verano" y "Otoño - Invierno"
- Winter Collection ISBN 978-1-932993-56-1
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