The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

#1>New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's 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 available as a standalone book.

Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, Stephen King's extraordinary novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, tells a powerful tale of crushing despair and liberating hope through the eyes of Ellis Red Redding. Red's a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine's corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn't count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufresne--an inscrutable one-time banker perhaps falsely convicted of brutal, calculated murder who will go on to transform everyone's lives within these prison walls.

Originally published in the 1982 collection>Different Seasons, it was adapted into the 1994 film>The Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this modern classic has become one of the most beloved films of all time. A mesmerizing work of unjust imprisonment and strangely satisfying revenge, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption remains one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories.

#1>New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's 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 available as a standalone book.

Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, Stephen King's extraordinary novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, tells a powerful tale of crushing despair and liberating hope through the eyes of Ellis Red Redding. Red's a guy who can get you whatever you want here in Maine's corrupt and hard-edged Shawshank State Penitentiary (for a price, of course), but the one thing he doesn't count on is an unexpected friendship forged with fellow inmate Andy Dufresne--an inscrutable one-time banker perhaps falsely convicted of brutal, calculated murder who will go on to transform everyone's lives within these prison walls.

Originally published in the 1982 collection>Different Seasons, it was adapted into the 1994 film>The Shawshank Redemption starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, this modern classic has become one of the most beloved films of all time. A mesmerizing work of unjust imprisonment and strangely satisfying revenge, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption remains one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories.

King, Stephen: - Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes 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. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). 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. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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ISBN 13	9780451183941
ISBN 10	0451183940
Title	The Shawshank Redemption
Author	Stephen King
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	1994-09-01
Number of pages	560
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