The Green Mile [Paperback]

This novel (now complete in one volume) taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colourful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does". And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award. --Amazon.com --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

"Entertainment Weekly" A literary event. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'King's best in years' -- Entertainment Weekly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Stephen King's international bestselling - and highly acclaimed - novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers await death, whilst their guards watch over them. Good or evil, innocent or guilty, none of them have ever seen the likes of brutal new prisoner John Coffey, seemingly a devil in human form.

Stephen King, the world¿s bestselling novelist, lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine.