Apt pupil
King, Stephen, 1947-2018
Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless coming-of-age novella, Apt Pupil—published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a 1998 Tristar movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro—now available for the first time as a standalone publication.If you don’t believe in the existence of evil, you have a lot to learn. 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 finally there is only one left standing.
Main title:
Apt pupil / Stephen King.
Author:
King, Stephen, 1947-, author
Work:
Edition:
Scribner trade paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Scribner, 2018.©1982.
Collation:
216 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in 1982 in Different Seasons by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc."--Title page verso.
Audience:
Adolescent.
ISBN:
97819821154491982115440
Dewey class:
F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
490778