This new book is published by Hodder & Stoughton, an imprint of Hachette. Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, it was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Originally published in 1982 in the collection 'Different Seasons' (alongside 'The Body', 'Apt Pupil,' and 'The Breathing Method'), it was adapted on the big screen in 1994.

Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption' is regarded one of King's most iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. Stephen King's 'Rita Hayworth' out as standalone book(Associated Press) He follows his instructions and both of them embrace, when they meet each other again.Acclaimed author Stephen King's 'Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption', a tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape which was the basis for Oscar-nominated 'The Shawshank Redemption', is now available for the first time as a standalone book. Finally, when Andy breaks out of prison, he gives Red directions to find a large sum of money with the instructions to come and find him in Mexico. When he finds out, that Andy is innocent and tries to deal with the events that led to his wife's death, he helps him get through it. Red stated that he only did it because he was 'a young, stupid kid' and that not a day goes by where he doesn't feel regret for the terrible crime, and it is speaking from his heart like this that resulted in him getting paroled after serving forty years out of a life sentence.Īs both Red and Andy's sentences drag on, the two become closer. He would inadvertantly murder three more when his wife picked up some passengers on the way into town, resulting in Red getting caught. Red said he was the only guilty man in Shawshank because he murdered his wife for insurance money by cutting the brakes on her car. This makes him an important man within the prison's social structure - and it is also the reason that he first becomes acquainted with Andy. Red delivers contraband of almost any type (except, on his own principles, hard drugs and weapons) into Shawshank. He appears in the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the film The Shawshank Redemption, where he is played by Morgan Freeman. Morgan Freeman Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding is the best friend of Andy Dufresne and is both the deuteragonist and narrator of the story.

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