The Green Mile · Book 6
Coffey on the Mile
- Published
- 1 August 1996
- Pages
- 138
- ISBN-13
- 9780451190574
- Type
- novella
About this book
Coffey on the Mile, the sixth and longest installment at 138 pages, closes out King's serialized Green Mile in August 1996, resolving John Coffey's fate and the guards' reckoning with his innocence.
Its place in The Green Mile
Coffey on the Mile is book 6 in the The Green Mile series. It follows Night Journey. See the full The Green Mile reading order.
Paul Edgecombe, head guard on E Block -- the death-row wing nicknamed 'the Green Mile' for its sickly-green linoleum -- narrates the arrival of John Coffey, a giant, gentle Black man convicted of murdering two young girls. Coffey turns out to possess a miraculous healing gift, and as Edgecombe and his fellow guards come to know him, the certainty of his guilt begins to crack even as his execution date approaches. Stephen King wrote The Green Mile as a serialized novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451190574