Stephen King The Body

The No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's timeless coming-of-age novella,|The Body|- set in Castle Rock and originally published in his 1982 short story collection|Different Seasons,|and adapted into the film classic|Stand by Me|- is now available as a stand-alone publication.||We'd all listened to the Ray Brower story . . . he was a kid our age|The small town of Castle Rock is tuning in to the news of a young boy who has gone missing from a nearby town.Gordie Lachance and his three friends set off along the railway tracks on a quest, determined to become famous by officially finding the boy's body. But their journey becomes a rite of passage, and as they cross the railway trestle and the tracks begin to hum, the boys encounter an intimation of their own mortality.Adapted into the 1986 classic film|Stand By Me|,|The Body|is an iconic exploration of friendship, loneliness and adventure, an unforgettable coming-of-age story by master chronicler of small-town adolescence and universal experience, Stephen King.