THE GREEN MILE by Stephen King (1996)
This is a curious hybrid of a novel combining horror, crime fiction, social realism and fantasy.
There’s even a hint that it is intended as a religious allegory.
King himself admits that the novel is an experiment. It originally appeared in six installments in the New York Times with each part needing to end in a way that left the “constant reader” wanting more.
This is the way novels of old, notably those of Charles Dickens, were presented to the public and King was curious to see if he could get modern-day audiences hooked in the same way.
It helps ,of course, that he loves to surprise and shock in fictional works that are always strongly plot driven. Continue reading
