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#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 now available for the first time as a standalone book.A mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. 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.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. Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, this modern classic was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, is one of the most beloved films of all time and is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.

Legendary Storyteller Stephen King Goes Into The Deepest Well Of His Imagination In This Spellbinding Novel About A Seventeen-year-old Boy Who Inherits The Keys To A Parallel World Where Good And Evil Are At War, And The Stakes Could Not Be Higher - For Their World Or Ours. Charlie Reade Looks Like A Regular High School Kid, Great At Baseball And Football, A Decent Student. But He Carries A Heavy Load. His Mom Was Killed In A Hit-and-run Accident When He Was Ten, And Grief Drove His Dad To Drink. Charlie Learned How To Take Care Of Himself - And His Dad. Then, When Charlie Is Seventeen, He Meets A Dog Named Radar And Her Aging Master, Howard Bowditch, A Recluse In A Big House At The Top Of A Big Hill, With A Locked Shed In The Backyard. Sometimes Strange Sounds Emerge From It. Charlie Starts Doing Jobs For Mr. Bowditch And Loses His Heart To Radar. Then, When Bowditch Dies, He Leaves Charlie A Cassette Tape Telling A Story No One Would Believe. What Bowditch Knows, And Has Kept Secret All His Long Life, Is That Inside The Shed Is A Portal To Another World. King's Storytelling In Fairy Tale Soars. This Is A Magnificent And Terrifying Tale About Another World Than Ours, In Which Good Is Pitted Against Overwhelming Evil, And A Heroic Boy - And His Dog - Must Lead The Battle.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year Dan has been drifting for decades desperate to shed his fathers legacy of despair alcoholism and violence Finally he settles in a New Hampshire town an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying Aided by a prescient cat he becomes Doctor Sleep Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone and it is her spectacular gift the brightest shining ever seen that reignites Dans own demons and summons him to a battle for Abras soul and survival S