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Book Review of The Green Mile

The Green Mile
The Green Mile
Author: Stephen King
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Horror
Book Type: Paperback
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Welcomne to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to Depression-worn men of E Block. They are all convicted killers, waiting his turn to walk the Green Mile. The electric chair awaits each of them. Paul Edgecombe has never seen anyone like John Coffey. He is a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child who is condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefs.