The green mile
By: Stephen King.
Edition: 1st Scribner ed.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
Subjects: Prisons -- Fiction; Death row inmates -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.

"Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death- row facility, The Green Mile is the story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help every prisoner spend his last days peacefully and every man walk the green mile to execution with his humanity intact."--BOOK JACKET.