The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel written by Stephen King. Published in six volumes, it was crafted while the book was already in production. It focuses on the encounter a death row supervisor, Paul Edgecombe, has with an unusual inmate, John Coffey, who displays unexplainable healing and empathetic abilities. The novel was originally published in serial form before being republished as a single volume work.
A first-person narrative told by P...
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The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel written by Stephen King. Published in six volumes, it was crafted while the book was already in production. It focuses on the encounter a death row supervisor, Paul Edgecombe, has with an unusual inmate, John Coffey, who displays unexplainable healing and empathetic abilities. The novel was originally published in serial form before being republished as a single volume work.
A first-person narrative told by Paul Edgecombe, the novel switches between Paul as an old man in a nursing home sharing his story with fellow resident Elaine Connelly, and his time in 1935 as the block supervisor of the Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row, nicknamed "The Green Mile". In this year, a new inmate arrives named John Coffey, a 6'8" black man who has been convicted of raping and murdering two small white girls. Besides Coffey, there are two other prisoners on the cellblock during the main period the book focuses on: Eduard "Del" Delacroix, a Cajun arsonist and...
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