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1982. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is a realist novella by Stephen King. It was first published in 1982 by Viking Press in his collection Different Seasons. It was later included in the 2009 collection Stephen King Goes to the Movies. The plot follows former bank vice president Andy Dufresne, who is wrongly convicted of murdering his ...
Aug 27, 1982 · Shawshank: "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" is a masterpiece. A streamlined cast of characters and clever telling of the story using the narrator as a main character, only to shift into first person to finish the story with expectant yet unresolved hope. Apt Pupil: Scary. Really spooky stuff.
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Red, the narrator, recounts how he planned and carried out his wifes murder by disabling her brakes, which accidentally killed a neighbor and child as well and earned him a life sentence at Shawshank Prison. Red also remembers the arrival of an inmate named Andy Dufresne, whose tenure at Shawshank affected the lives of everyone at the prison. Andy ...
Soon after arriving at Shawshank, Andy approaches Red and asks him to procure a rock hammer because hes interested in rock collecting and carving. After a while, he also pays Red to smuggle in some polishing cloths and then, rather nervously, a large poster of pinup Rita Hayworth. Red fulfills Andys requests.
After a few years, Red and Andy both find themselves on a work crew, tarring the roof of the prisons license plate factory. Andy overhears Byron Hadley, a prison guard, complaining to the other guards about the taxes hell have to pay on the $35,000 he just inherited from his long-lost brother. Andy offers Hadley some financial advice by telling him...
A new inmate named Tommy Williams arrives at Shawshank and tells Andy that he served time in another prison with Elwood Blatch, a man who privately admitted to killing tennis pro Glenn Quentin. When Andy asks Norton to request a retrial, Norton dismisses Andys claims and puts him in solitary confinement for more than a month on the grain and drain ...
Eventually Andy emerges from his lengthy depression and tells Red one day that he had a friend set up a false identity for him. Under the false identity, the friend invested $14,000 of Andys money, which has since become more than $370,000. Andy, however, cant touch the money, saved under his alternate identity, because he would risk exposing himse...
Sep 29, 2020 · 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 ...
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Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption is a novella by Stephen King, first published in 1982 as part of his collection Different Seasons. The story is narrated by Red, a long-term inmate at Shawshank State Penitentiary, and tells the tale of his friendship with Andy Dufresne, a banker who is wrongfully convicted of murder. The story unfolds ...
In Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, the Shawshank prison cellblock where incarcerated protagonists Red and Andy live was constructed in the 1930s under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was a U.S. federal agency created under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to increase jobs during the Great Depression (1929–1940 ...
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Aug 27, 1982 · Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Released. August 27th, 1982. Available Format (s) In Collection / Paperback. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption --the most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo.
