Apt Pupil

Description

A golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. ([source][1]) ---------- Also appears in: - [Different Seasons][2] - [Apt Pupil / Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption][3] [1]: https://www.stephenking.com/library/novella/apt_pupil.html [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81621W/Different_Seasons [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14917077W/Rita_Hayworth_and_Shawshank_Redemption_Apt_Pupil

First Sentence

There's a guy like me in every state and federal prison in America, I guess-I'm the guy who can get it for you.

Excerpt

He looked like the total all-American kid as he pedaled his twenty-six-inch Schwinn with the apehanger handlebars up the residential suburban street, and that's just what he was: Todd Bowden, thirteen years old, five-feet-eight and a healthy one hundred and forty pounds, hair the color of ripe corn, blue eyes, white even teeth, lightly tanned skin marred by not eve the first shadow of adolescent acne.

Subjects

Other Editions

• Apt Pupilaudio cdSimon & Schuster Audio2016-03-08
• Apt PupilAudio CassetteBrand: Recorded Books1984-01-01
• Apt PupilPenguin Audio1998-10-01
• Apt Pupil Signet1998-11-01
• Different SeasonspaperbackWarner Books1999-01-01
• Apt PupilLittle, Brown Book Group Limited2000-01-01