Brighton Rock
by:
Graham Greene (author)
Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, the teenage gangster, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of the spirit or of the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed Kite and also...
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Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, the teenage gangster, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of the spirit or of the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed Kite and also for the death of Hale, he is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, h
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Viking Press
Pages no: 361
Edition language: English
Introduction & Notes--Brighton Rock
Seriously, I am done with Greene's "gritty thrillers". Years ago, I watched Brighton Rock and didn't enjoy it. Now, having read the book as the (hopefully) last of the "early" works, I have the same impression. Nice, but so not keeping me interested...at all. And, oh dear, there is some clunky ...
I don't know if it's an English thing, but everyone seemed to have read this book I had never even heard of. Well, now I've done it too, and it's my first Graham Greene. Score! One thing that I like about Brighton Rock is its excellent sense of place. Graham Greene draws a very vivid image of Bright...
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 for the other gang, and the rest of the story he sets about trying to give himself a watertigh...
Perfectly shaped and utterly gripping. A classic worth the re-read.
10 years ago
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