King’s first-person narration is inspired.
In The Body, four 12-year-old boys in a country town go on an extended adventure together along a railway track. Shawshank tells the story of the prison years and eventual escape of a young man condemned to life imprisonment for two murders he didn’t commit. But King in Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and The Body doesn’t go anywhere near his usual stamping ground. The standard of his writing (as well as the laughable subject matter) often suffer criticism. I tend to steer clear of horror/supernatural fiction and Stephen King’s slick production line in particular. Two of the movies would become classics, loved by millions and watched over and over again: The Shawshank Redemption, starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, and Stand by Me, featuring four budding young actors including the brilliant but ill-fated River Phoenix.
He or she didn’t know three of the four stories would in time be transformed into major motion pictures. On the volume’s publication, a reviewer scathingly condemned Stephen King’s Different Seasons: “It will take all of King’s monumental byline-insurance to drum up an audience for this bottom-of-the-trunk collection: four overpadded novellas, in non-horror genres” (Kirkus Reviews, 1 August, 1982). Different Seasons, by Stephen King (1982, Occult) collects four of King’s stories, including Hope springs eternal: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and Fall from innocence: The Body.
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