The Green Mile
About this book
The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in six volumes before being republished as a single-volume work. The book is an example of magical realism.
The Green Mile won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1996. In 1997, The Green Mile was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel".
Contains:
- The Two Dead Girls
- The Mouse on the Mile
- Coffey's Hands
- The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix
- Night Journey
- Coffey on the Mile
Subjects
- african american healers
- american horror tales
- arsonists
- cajuns
- catatonia
- chang pian xiao shuo
- cuentos de terror
- death row
- death row inmates
- electric chairs
- electric current
- electrodes
- empathy
- executions and executioners
- ficción
- fiction
- first-person narrative
- horror
- horror fiction
- horror tales
- insurance fraud
- jails
- mice
- miracles
- murder
- murderers
- mystery
- mystery and detective stories
- native americans
- nursing homes
- open library staff picks
- paranormal fiction
- penitentiary
- prisiones
- prisoners
- prison officials and employees
- prisons
- prison wardens
- psychiatric hospitals
- psychics
- rape
- serial
- serialised fiction
- serialized fiction
- sisters
- solitary confinement
- straitjackets
- supernatural
- suspense fiction
- urinary tract infections