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.

• horror fiction
• fiction
• death row inmates
• prisons
• Executions and executioners
• jails
• sisters
• murder