THE GREEN MILE

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with “Old Sparky,” Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wonderful truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs… and yours.
Author Bio: Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are Everything's Eventual, Dreamcatcher, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Bag of Bones, the screenplay Storm of the Century, and The Green Mile. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was also a bestseller. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.