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Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

Paperback | Pages: 269 pages

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Original Title:	Brighton Rock
ISBN:	0099478471 (ISBN13: 9780099478478)
Edition Language:	English URL https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1033601/brighton-rock/9780099478478/
Characters:	Rose, Fred Hale, Ida Arnold, Pinkie Brown
Setting:	Brighton, England(United Kingdom)

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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'. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE

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Title	:	Brighton Rock
Author	:	Graham Greene
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Vintage Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 269 pages
Published	:	October 7th 2004 by Vintage (first published 1938)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Mystery. Crime. Thriller

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Graham Greene's Brighton Rock tells the story of a young leader of one of the infamous razor gangs in 1930s Brighton who murders a journalist and then finds that his attempts to avoid any possibility of arrest lead him into ever-increasing complications and violence. A woman who had befriended the journalist sets out to bring his killer to justice. This is a remarkably dark and pessimistic novel. Its a crime novel, but Greene has other agendas as well in this book. Greene was a Catholic, but he

This book is a multi-layered and rather startling portrayal of gangster life in the thirties in Brighton, England. This is not a cheery read so be prepared to feel out of sorts.It starts with 'Fred' Hale who knows he's to be killed but tries to keep someone by his side to prevent it happening - his chosen mate to this end is Ida who is a brassy sort but with a good sense of right and wrong.When she discovers that the date she thought had stood her up has been found dead she suspects foul play

I'd just finished a book about 1940s/50s Cuba, in which Graham Greene is mentioned as having visited and enjoyed a place where "one could obtain anything at will, whether drugs, or women, or goats". Since I've been meaning to read more Greene, I figured now would be a good time for Our Man in Havana. A couple days pass, things come up, apparently my memory is shit, and for some reason I start reading Brighton Rock. Hey, why the fuck not?! I'm an idiot...This book has very little to do with Cuba.

This tale of mob and murder does not always hit and strike but the appeal of its blasphemy suffices to keep my attention throughout. As there is also, of course, the intriguing moral blind spots occasionally seized by nagging guilt, Brighton Rock loses its steam with its seemingly shakable logic as violence and deceit accelerate. The dry faith in god crumbles, so is the saturated gangsterism loyalty. And whilst the suspense and thrill do take a large amount of its narrative they slowly dissipate

"I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school."Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods- Good and Evil. The woman could tell her nothing she didn't know about these- she knew by tests as clear as mathematics that Pinkie was evil- what did it matter in that case whether he was right or wrong?That's pretty much the book right there. This is a

William Gibson wrote something not long ago -- well, tweeted something, actually -- that has haunted me unexpectedly. Speaking of the sea change in American culture brought by World War II, Gibson noted that "WWII Americans looked like us; 1935 Americans seriously didn't." Somehow, this statement is totally accurate. If the past since WWII is a foreign country, the past before WWII is an alien planet.Graham Greene wasn't an American, of course, but the same mysterious principle applied across

Greene's most famous work is a game of two halvesI think it might be fair to say that this one is only as famous as it is because of the excellent film noir starring the old man from Jurassic Park. That was a shocker for me I can tell you, Father Christmas as a stone cold killer. It's a fine book, an early entertainment with an obvious study of the effect of the Catholic church on man. But I was at the midway point when I realised that it was suddeny becoming less enjoyable to read. Greene