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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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The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The Green Mile is the hall with a floor "the color of tired old limes" that leads to "Old Sparky" (the electric chair). The charming narrator is an old man, a prison guard, looking back on the events decades later.