I’m a believer that a story has an ideal length with one exception, I felt these stories were perfect at the lengths they are. King talks about how each of these were written after he completed work on a novel, a time when he had a bit of story-telling juice left but not enough to make it through another 100,000+ words. That, and the fact that the first three novellas in the collection have nothing supernatural about them, made them a bit of a gamble from the publisher’s point of view and it’s one that I’m very glad they took. Novellas did not sell as well during that time and it was harder to find a home for them. I’ll be looking at the recurring themes, the tricks he likes to use, the way he develops character and the way that his craft has evolved in the 44 years since Carrie was first published.Īccording to the afterword to this book, King had trouble at first convincing his editor to accept Different Seasons. I will be reading all of Stephen King’s books in order of publication (with the exception of The Dark Tower series which I will read together, at the end of this adventure) and writing a review of each.
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