The Green Mile A Novel in Six Parts

<p>The Green Mile. Those who walk it do not return -- because at the end of that walk, at the Cold Mountain penitentiary, is the room in which sits the electric chair.<br> It is 1932. The newest inhabitant of Death Row is a giant black man, John Coffey, convicted -- apparently on his own admission -- of the senseless and brutal murder of two little girls. Executing a man is never easy, but at first sight taking society�s revenge on Coffey is one of the easier jobs chief guard Paul Edgecombe and his fellow warders have had to do.<br> But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a story both bizarre and horrifying. Whether he is an evil murderer or a holy innocent, Coffey has strange powers, which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.<br> THE GREEN MILE is perhaps the finest novel yet by one of the world�s greatest storytellers, by turns warmly human and shatteringly horrific, and unputdownable from first page to last.</p>