First lines
There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess-I'm the guy who can get it for you.
He looked like the total all-American kid as he pedaled his twenty-six-inch Schwinn with the apehanger handlebars up the residential suburban street, and that's just what he was: Todd Bowden, thirteen years old, five-feet-eight and a healthy one hundred and forty pounds, hair the color of ripe corn, blue eyes, white even teeth, lightly tanned skin marred by not eve the first shadow of adolescent a…
About this book
A golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. ([source][1]) ---------- Also appears in: - [Different Seasons][2] - [Apt Pupil / Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption][3] [1]: https://www.stephenking.com/library/novella/apt_pupil.html [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81621W/Different_Seasons [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917077W/Rita_Hayworth_and_Shawshank_Redemption_Apt_Pupil
Themes & subjects
novellaGermansNaziswar crimeHolocaustSchutzstaffel
First published 1998Characters & people
Setting
CaliforniaSanto DonatoLos Angeles1974
About the author
Stephen King
21 September 1947
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution t…
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