Novel1996
The Green Mile
Stephen King
Set on death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary in 1932, prison guard Paul Edgecombe encounters John Coffey, an enormous Black man convicted of murdering two young girls who possesses miraculous healing powers.
Did You Know?
- •Originally published as six serialized paperback novellas released monthly in 1996
- •The 1999 film starring Tom Hanks was nominated for four Academy Awards
- •King wrote the serial installments without knowing exactly how the story would end
- •The complete novel was later published in a single hardcover volume by Scribner
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