Dripping with the malevolent atmosphere of the 1930s Brighton underworld, Greene's thrilling novel of casual violence and dangerous loneliness introduces, in the teenage hoodlum Pinkie, one of the most iconic characters in British fiction.
Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.
Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the dangerous edge of things. In this gripping, terrifying, and unputdownable read, discover Greene's iconic tale of the razor-wielding Pinkie.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099478478
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 205 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 18 mm
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists... A master of storytelling - The Times
Graham Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature - John le Carre
A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy - New York Times
I read Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas - Ian McEwan
This is a dark story set in 1930's Brighton. Greene's main character is a small time gang member who seeks to revenge the death of his previous boss by the main gang in Brighton. He kills Hale, an informer... More
Brighton Rock is my favourite Graham Greene book. Its thrilling and fast paced and I loved it from start to finish. It's easy to see why this book was adapted to film. Greene creates believable characters who... More
A chilling tale told in the most exquisite of styles. Greene delivers a frightfully gripping thriller which sucked me in from the first page and never let me go. Marvelous storytelling.
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