Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Stephen King • 1982
Devastation Rating
prison survival injustice literary fiction friendship
Our Take
King writes hope in a place designed to extinguish it, and Andy Dufresne's quiet, patient endurance is more frightening than anything in King's horror work. Red's narration carries the weight of decades wasted, and the ending earns its hope because the novel has not flinched from what prison actually does to people.
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