The Green Mile: The iconic horror masterpiece - Softcover

Stephen King

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575084340 ISBN 13: 9780575084346

Publisher: Gollancz, 2008

Synopsis

Stephen King's international bestselling and highly acclaimed novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks

The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story.

Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.

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Review:

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

Review:

King's best in years (Entertainment Weekly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0575084340
• ISBN 13: 9780575084346
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448