Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 3 February 2011.
I just love this man’s writing. The 17-year old, razor happy gang leader, Pinkie, is one of fiction’s great characters, truly nasty. Despite the dated period, the underlying message is the same today as it ever was. It is perhaps Greene’s greatest book.
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The movie of Brighton Rock opens on 4 February 2011. See a trailer below.
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold, who is determined to avenge a death.
Brighton Rock features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Brighton Rock is available in Ebook, Hardback, CD-Audio, Paperback
Brighton Rock was written by Graham Greene and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of CCV
Brighton Rock has 269 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage Classics series