The Green Mile

Informationen zum Autor Stephen King is the author of more than 40 novels and 200 short stories. In 2003 he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, in Bangor, Maine. Klappentext The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him. Vorwort 'THE GREEN MILE has everybody talking ... as haunting and touching as it is just plain haunted' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The No.1 bestseller and also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks. Zusammenfassung 'THE GREEN MILE has everybody talking ... as haunting and touching as it is just plain haunted' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLYThe No.1 bestseller and also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks.

Vorwort

'THE GREEN MILE has everybody talking ... as haunting and touching as it is just plain haunted' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
The No.1 bestseller and also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks.

Klappentext

The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story.

Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.