His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. About the Author Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, this modern classic was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and is among the most beloved films of all time. Originally published in 1982 in the collection Different Seasons (alongside The Body, Apt Pupil, and The Breathing Method), it was made into the film The Shawshank Redemption in 1994. Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen Kings most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Book Synopsis #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen Kings beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption-about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book. Or maybe it's just luck - he was due for some.About the Book Originally published in 1982 in Different Seasons by Viking. In the film, he takes a ride out into the country, and though he has to walk around for a while, he locates the box with relative ease. In fact, in the book, he spends weeks searching for the box under the volcanic rock near the old stone wall from Andy's years-old description, all during the downtime from his shift bagging groceries at the store. Instead, he made the part his own and even earned an Oscar nomination for it.Īnother small but significant difference between Red's trajectory in the novel and the film is that he finds the box by searching himself in the book, with less direct guidance from Andy's clues than he has in the film. The sought-after Morgan Freeman even shied away from the role at first because he read the novella and thought, 'I can't play an Irishman.' Of course, he didn't play one, as the movie creatively worked around including the line by passing it off as a joke.

Red's character was Irish in the novel, not African-American.

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