'The Green Mile'

'The Green Mile' a moving story about prisoners and guards on a death block.  It talks about the events taking place in the year 1932, in Block E of the Cold Mountain prison. An extraordinary prisoner, John Coffey, makes his way to the block and he has the gift of performing miracles of healing. He was wrongly convicted, but the sentence must be enforced.

The events are reported by Paul Edgecomb writing down his memories in a retirement home in the year 1996.  Edgecomb has worked on Block E as a guard. The guards called the block the Green Mile - same as the green linoleum with which the floor is lined.  The novel describes not only the events on the prison block, but also the fates of the guards and of the other heroes of the novel.

Wanting to refer to an old custom, Stephen King published this book in parts every month. The book consisted of 6 parts: 'Two Dead Girls', 'The Mouse on the Mile', 'Coffey's Hands', 'The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix', 'Night Journey', 'Coffey on the Mile'. It was issued as one entire volume in the year 1997.