Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge. Rather than return to prison, Red decides to break parole and find Andy-demonstrating that prison did not destroy Red’s instinct for freedom and that Andy’s story has inspired Red to hope for a better life.#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King's beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee The Shawshank Redemption-about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is now available for the first time as a standalone book.Ī mesmerizing tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers would return to over and over again. There Red finds an envelope containing $1000 and a letter from Andy, inviting Red to join him in Mexico. At first, freedom so overwhelmed Red that he considered committing another crime to return to prison instead, inspired by Andy’s story, Red visits the place where Andy once told him the key to his fake identity’s safe-deposit box would be hidden. Yet after being paroled in 1977, Red resumes writing. Red reveals he’s been writing the story of Andy’s incarceration and escape since he received the postcard and now, he believes, he’s finally finished. After Andy escapes Shawshank in 1975, Red receives a blank postcard from the U.S.-Mexico border, a message from Andy letting Red know that Andy is fulfilling his dream of running a hotel under a fake identity in Mexico. Red finds Andy’s self-possession and desire for freedom admirable-yet Red believes that, unlike Andy, he has gotten too “institutionalized” by prison to live in the free world again. After Red obtains several items for Andy, including a rock-hammer and a pin-up poster, they become friends. In prison Red learns to obtain contraband items for other prisoners but refuses to deal in hard drugs, weapons, or contract killing, as he doesn’t want to be complicit in more death. Red regrets the murders but doesn’t think Shawshank “rehabilitated” him-a distinction emphasizing how little incarceration does to rehabilitate people who’ve committed crimes.
In 1938, at age 20, he was convicted of triple homicide and sent to Maine’s Shawshank prison. Red, who narrates Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, is a funny, self-deprecating man with “carroty red hair.” He grew up poor, married a rich girl he impregnated, and became so frustrated with his family situation that he cut the brakes on his wife’s car, killing her and her two passengers.
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