When United Artists released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. She uses her power, in turn, to torment and eventually destroy her mean-spirited classmates. That book, Carrie, was about a girl with telekinetic powers who is tormented by bullies at school. Three months later, he received a $2,500 advance from Doubleday Publishing for the book that went on to sell a modest 13,000 hardcover copies. She removed the first few chapters from the garbage after King had thrown them away in frustration. King's first novel would never have been published if not for his wife. His spare time was spent writing short stories and novels. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, he became a teacher.

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in 'The Breathing Method.' This novella became the movie Stand By Me. In 'The Body,' four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. 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. This gripping collection begins with 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,' in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revengethe basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption.

'The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,' hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.

Read full overviewĪ 'hypnotic' ( The New York Times Book Review ) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. A 'hypnotic' ( The New York Times Book Review ) collection of four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.

Different seasons novellas