There is a guy like me in every friends group who loves written words more than movies -- I guess, I am the guy who can suggest you a book or two. If there is only one book that you want me to suggest, then it’s going to be: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.
I assume you have watched Shawshank Redemption: all time top rated movie on IMDB. Everyone in my friends group has watched it at least a few times; they have praised it and praised it again. If a movie can leave a lasting impression, after reading this book, you will be surprised by how a book can leave much more than that.
Known as The King of Horror, Stephen King was the last author on my mind when I quite surprisingly learned that the movie is in fact based on his novella: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Though I haven’t read any of his fiction until now,
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It does take Red a lot of time, actually a few years, before he believes that Andy, indeed, is an innocent man and a couple of decades to learn why he wanted a rock hammer.
Andy, with his peculiar sense of freedom which he carries with a smile, finds a way to work for the notorious warden by helping with taxes for all that illegal money earned in the prison - by labor, supplying pills, etc…. Andy sets up a library for prisoners to read and get educated. As Red would repeat himself quite a few time, Andy never looked like he belonged ‘there.’
Andy disappears one day; and disappears he does forever. I will leave out the details of his plan for you to read. While in the prison, he also learns about the real killer of his wife and her lover. Red is eventually paroled and becomes a free man. After a small stint at a store, he eventually heads towards a place where Andy left a letter for him. The book ends with Red starting a long journey to meet Andy, to meet Andy for the first time outside those prison walls. All he has got is ‘hope’ that he will find