The Green Mile · Book 5
Night Journey
- Published
- 1 July 1996
- Pages
- 90
- ISBN-13
- 9780613096058
- Type
- novella
About this book
Night Journey, released in July 1996, holds the fifth spot in The Green Mile's six-part serial, moving Stephen King's story further into supernatural territory as Coffey's execution date approaches.
Its place in The Green Mile
Night Journey is book 5 in the The Green Mile series. It follows The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix. It is followed by Coffey on the Mile. 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 9780613096058