Standing by Stephen King

The Body

by Stephen King

Penguin

December 1999, 80 pages

[5 March 2008]

by Jennifer Makowsky

Childhood and the end of innocence are vividly portrayed in Stephen King's novella The Body, and Rob Reiner's excellent interpretation, Stand by Me.

Stand By Me remains one of the most resonant films of my life; I was about ten when it came out, and it was haunting then and it’s haunting now… if for different reasons.

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