Apt Pupil
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Apt Pupil
By (Author) Stephen King
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton
14th September 2021
9th September 2021
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
813.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
256
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 20mm
184g
Description
The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's memorable story Apt Pupil - published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro - is now available as a standalone publication.
You must know that your fate and my own are inextricably intertwined
Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander's dark and deadly past . . . a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day.
Yet Todd doesn't want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power - and the seductive lure of evil.
A classic story from Stephen King Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception and horror as the boy and old man hold each other in a mutual deathgrip. Each knows something the other wants kept secret.
Reviews
King has an uncanny knack of finding horror in the midst of the commonplace * DAILY MAIL *
King readers know that he is an absolute master of the long story * DAILY EXPRESS *
Not since Dickens has a writer had so many readers by the throat * GUARDIAN *
Author Bio
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all worldwide bestsellers. His recent titles include The Institute, which was described by the Sunday Express as a 'masterpiece', The Outsider (voted winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for best Mystery and Thriller 2018), and If It Bleeds.
Many of his titles have been turned into celebrated films, TV series and streamed events including IT, 'a book which speaks to everybody' (Guardian), The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me.King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.