Différentes Saisons

You don't read a Stephen King novel, you devour it. With Different Seasons, our pleasure is quadrupled, because King offers us this time four stories that are in fact complete novels. An innocent man condemned to life imprisonment tries to escape; a young boy uncovers a former Nazi in a small California town; some kids go in search of a corpse; a doctor tells the story of a single and pregnant young woman in the 1930s... Nothing in common, at first glance, between these four themes. But behind these heroes of very different ages and backgrounds, it is American society that Stephen King dissects, with his attention to detail and the right word, his sense of observation, suspense and black humor that characterize him. America does not emerge unscathed from this vivisection. Neither do we...