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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, non-horrific 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. 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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Different seasons, Stephen King
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- Released
- 1984
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- Title
- Different seasons
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephen King
- Publisher
- Futura
- Released
- 1984
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 560
- ISBN10
- 0708823602
- ISBN13
- 9780708823606
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Thriller, Short Stories, Suspense, Horror, American Literature, Gifts for men, Psychological Thrillers, Adapted for Film, Novellas, Horror Short Stories
- First published
- 1982
- Original title
- Different Seasons
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- Description
- 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, non-horrific 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. 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