The Green Mile - Hardcover
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This novel taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. Maybe it's a little too cute, maybe the pathos is laid on a little thick, but it's hard to resist the colorful personalities and simple wonders of this supernatural tale. As Time magazine put it, "Like the best popular art, The Green Mile has the courage of its cornier convictions ... the palpable sense of King's sheer, unwavering belief in his tale is what makes the novel work as well as it finally does." And it's not a bad choice for giving to someone who doesn't understand the appeal of Stephen King, because the one scene that is out-and-out gruesome can be easily skipped by the squeamish. The Green Mile was nominated for a 1997 Bram Stoker Award.
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Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, The Green Mile is the riveting and tragic story of John Coffey, a giant, preternaturally gentle inmate condemned to death for the rape and murder of twin nine-year-old girls. It is a story narrated years later by Paul Edgecomb, the ward superintendent compelled to help every prisoner spend his last days peacefully and every man walk the green mile to execution with his humanity intact.
Edgecomb has sent seventy-eight inmates to their date with "old sparky", but he's never encountered one like Coffey -- a man who wants to die, yet has the power to heal. And in this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecomb discovers the terrible truth about Coffey's gift, a truth that challenges his most cherished beliefs -- and ours.
Originally published in 1996 in six self-contained monthly installments, The Green Mile is an astonishingly rich and complex novel that delivers over and over again. Each individual volume became a huge success when first published, and all six were on the New York Times bestseller list simultaneously. Three years later, when Frank Darabont made The Green Mile into an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, the book returned to the bestseller list -- and stayed there for months.
And now -- with a new introduction by King's foreign agent Ralph Vicinanza, as well as the author's own foreword -- we have the first hardcover edition of this magnificent novel in which "King surpasses our expectations, leaves us spellbound and hungry for the next twist of plot" (The Boston Globe).
With illustrations and a new frontispiece for this edition by Mark Geyer.
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- PublisherSubterranean Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1596060824
- ISBN 13 9781596060821
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages500
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Book Description Hardcover. First Separate Hardcover Edition. Octavo, Six volumes. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's Very Good slip case. Bound in green cloth with silver gilt lettering. Minor shelfwear. All textblocks clean. Shelved in Case 8. 1376485. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1376485
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine in fine slipcase. Six volume set. Hardcovers, bound in green cloth in matching slipcase. A novel published in six self-contained monthly installments. "A Depression-era prison novel, as hauntingly touching as it is just plain haunted . One of his freshest and most frightening works to date." - Tom De Haven. Made into a fine feature film in 1999, directed and screenplay by Frank Darabont. It starred Tom Hanks in the lead role with David Morse, Bonnie Hunt and Michael Clarke Duncan. The film was nominated for numerous awards including four Oscar nominations. Seller Inventory # 015000
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Special Edition. Although unstated, this Subterranean Press box set is the 2006 Gift Edition, limited to 2000 copies. It consists of six unsigned hardcover volumes of each part with all six volumes being housed in a slipcase. Each hardcover volume is As New and has green cloth-covered boards with stamped silver lettering and decoration on the spine and the upper board. The matching slipcase remains VG but there is a damp-stain that is predominantly located on the tail of the closed end. No dust jackets as issued. While there are no prior owner markings, Seller knows that this set was previously owned by an individual who is named at the end of Part Six as being one of "Those Who Walked the Green Mile". **Extra charges, if requested, will have to be approved by the Buyer before Seller will accept an order requesting international shipping because of the size and weight of this book set. Seller is also currently unable to fulfill an order that requests shipment to the EU or the UK because of VAT rules applicable to book sets of this value. Seller Inventory # t11648
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