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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About Brighton Rock
The movie of Brighton Rock opens on 4 February 2011. See a trailer below.
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.
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. Graham Greene died in April 1991. Among the many people who paid tribute to him on his death was Kingsley Amis: 'He will be missed all over the world. Until today, he was our greatest living novelist.'
The movie of Brighton Rock opens on 4 February 2011. See a trailer below.
Brighton Rock features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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Brighton Rock was written by Graham Greene and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of CCV
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