the green mile
Livre
Edité par Larousse - 2016
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 / Octobre 1932, Cold Mountain, Louisiane. Paul Edgecombre, gardien-chef du bloc , reserve aux condamnes a mort et surnomme "la ligne verte", rencontre John Coffey, un condamne a mort pour le viol et le double meurtre de deux fillettes. John Coffey semble disposer d'extraordinaires pouvoirs guerisseurs. Ce roman, qui est aussi une reflexion sur la peine de mort, a remporte le prix Bram Stoker 1996. Stephen King avec ce livre renoue avec le style un peu disparu du roman-feuilleton.