Shawshank Redemption Book Author. Almost everyone knows the shawshank redemption from the movie starring morgan freeman, but i suspect few know that stephen king is the author of the book it is based on. The novella does add details and character to the story and also embellishes the world of shawshank state prison, but it suffers from poor pacing.
The shawshank redemption was based on a novella — rita hayworth and shawshank redemption — written by an author whose work is almost entirely without hope. Mark kermode traces the history of this unexpected audience favourite from the pages of stephen king's novella 'rita hayworth and shawshank redemption', through the icy corridors of ohio's mansfield reformatory (whose imposing gothic architecture dominates the film), to the television and video screens on which 'the shawshank redemption' became a phenomenon. Buy the shawshank redemption by king, stephen from amazon's fiction books store.
The shawshank redemption revealed by mark dawidziak is a free netgalley ebook that i read in late august.
You know a movie is good when a classroom of rowdy teenagers sits quietly through the whole thing. This movie is one of my all time favourites, so i read this novella eager to see the similarities and differences between the two. Rita hayworth and shawshank redemption is a novella by stephen king from his 1982 collection different seasons, subtitled hope springs eternal. Interestingly, it isn’t an entire novel, but rather a novella, much shorter in length.