The green mile
(2000, original release: 1997)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/KING,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2000
EDITION
First Scribner edition
DESCRIPTION
399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780743210898, 0743210891 :, 9781501192265
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published as a complete serial novel: New York : Plume, 1997
pt. 1. The two dead girls -- pt. 2. The mouse on the mile -- pt. 3. Coffey's hands -- pt. 4. The bad death of Eduard Delacroix -- pt. 5. Night journey -- pt. 6. Coffey on the mile
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