A quartet of novellas introduces some of Stephen King's most famous characters, including a teenager obsessed with his Nazi camp guard neighbor, a man falsely imprisoned, and four boys in search of a dead body, in a collection that includes "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," "Apt Pupil," "The Body," and "The Breathing Method." Reissue.Amazon.com ReviewDifferent 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 manwho carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape fromprison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticingan 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 threefriends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy's corpse. Thetrip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.