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The Green Mile

by Stephen King

First Published

1998

Subjects

horror fiction
fiction
death row inmates
prisons
Executions and executioners
jails
sisters
murder
horror
prison officials and employees
American Horror tales
mice
Serialized fiction
mystery
Juvenile fiction
Murderers
Horror tales
suspense fiction
Penitentiary
Paranormal fiction
Prisoners
death row
Prison wardens
African American healers
miracles
serialised fiction
serial
First-person narrative
nursing homes
rape
Cajuns
arsonists
Native Americans
insurance fraud
psychiatric hospitals
electrodes
electric chairs
electric current
psychics
urinary tract infections
empathy
straitjackets
solitary confinement
catatonia
supernatural
mystery and detective stories
Open Library Staff Picks
Cuentos de terror
Ficción
Prisiones
Chang pian xiao shuo
Coffey, john (fictitious character), fiction
Fiction, horror
Georgia, fiction
John Coffey (Fictitious character)
Fiction, thrillers, suspense

Description

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: 1. [The Two Dead Girls](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149165W/The_Two_Dead_Girls) 2. [The Mouse on the Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149147W/The_Mouse_on_the_Mile) 3. [Coffey's Hands](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149107W/Coffey's_Hands) 4. [The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15861106W/The_Bad_Death_of_Eduard_Delacroix) 5. [Night Journey](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16252000W/Night_Journey) 6. [Coffey on the Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15136222W/Coffey_on_the_Mile)

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