Well, I’ll be damned – Different Seasons! A quartet of novellas because, you know, short stories just don’t pay the rent, and full-length novels? They’re like five-course meals, not everyone’s hungry for that much every time. But novellas? They’re like the literary equivalent of a quick burger — substantial enough, but won’t leave you in a food coma.
So, here’s a little of everything: prison breaks (Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption), Nazi hunters (Apt Pupil), boys’ adventures (The Body), and the untold truths about life and death (The Breathing Method). I always thought novellas were like underappreciated middle children, sitting between the short stories and novels, but this collection? It’s made me think maybe I should have more middle children.
Stephen King might have joked about novellas being too long for magazines and too short for full books, but hey, readers didn’t seem to mind. Go figure.
