The Green Mile
‘One of King’s most immediately engaging page-turners in ages ... No one has a lighter touch at looking into the heart of darkness’
USA Today
‘Vintage King ... It’s a tale well told and gripping to the end’
Associated Press
‘His best fiction in years, a Depression-era prison novel that’s as hauntingly touching as it is just plain haunted’
Entertainment Weekly
‘King has more in common with [Dickens] than his critics would dare concede. Both are first-rate storytellers and masters of the cliffhanger ... both as scarily imaginative and prolific, creating well-rounded, sympathetic characters and managing to be populist while remaining literate’
Spectator
‘King comes through ... he understands fully the value of wonder, the effect of magic in spinning a solid story for an appreciative audience’
Locus
‘All that is best in King’s work ... From 12 to 80, King brings his readers to tears of pity and wonder’
Boston Globe
‘The Green Mile has become a publishing sensation’