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Read this history-making serial novel -- from cliffhanger to
cliffhanger -- in its entirety.
When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The
Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes
ended up on the New York Times bestseller list -- simultaneously --
and delighted millions of fans the world over.
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,
wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most
cherished beliefs...and yours.
Excerpt
The Green Mile
This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold
Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.
The inmates made jokes about the chair the way people always make jokes
about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from. They called
it Old Sparky, or the Big Juicy. They made cracks about the Power bill,
and how Warden Moores would cook his Thanksgiving dinner that fall, with
his wife, Melinda, too sick to cook.
But for the ones who actually had to sit down in that chair, the humor
went out of the situation in a hurry I presided over seventy-eight
executions during my time at Cold Mountain (that's one figure I've never
been confused about; I'll remember it on my deathbed), and I think that,
for most of those men, the truth of what was happening to them finally hit
all the way home when their ankles were being damped to ...
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