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 revenge-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Sleeping Beauties is his latest 2017 New York Times bestseller.Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineĪ “hypnotic” ( The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas-including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption-from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. King's title Finders Keepers made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2015 for Best Novel with Mr. Mercedes and Revival made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014. In 2012 his title, The Wind Through the Keyhole made The New York Times Best Seller List. In 2003, he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Many of his books have been translated into foreign languages, and he writes new books at a rate of about one per year. King is one of the world's most successful writers, with more than 100 million copies of his works in print. He is number 2 on the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list. Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King has written the books The Running Man, The Regulators, Thinner, The Long Walk, Roadwork, Rage, and It. Many of King's other horror novels have been adapted into movies, including The Shining, Firestarter, Pet Semetary, Cujo, Misery, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers. The paperback version of the book, released after the movie, went on to sell more than two-and-a-half million copies. 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. The inspiration for the film of the same name starring Ian McKellen about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town.'Ħ CDs (approximately 7 hr.) : digital 12 cm. Stephen King s short story Apt Pupil from the collection 'Different Seasons' is now an Encore stand-alone CD for the first time.

Stephen king apt pupil audiobook