Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

by Graham Greene (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Jul 2004

ISBN 10: 0099470160
ISBN 13: 9780099470168
Book Overview: 'In a class by himself-the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety' William Golding, Independent

Media Reviews
A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy.
-- New York Times
Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations . . . For experience of a whole century he was the man within.
--Norman Sherry, Independent

From the Trade Paperback edition.


A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy.
-- New York Times
Greene had the sharpest eyes for trouble, the finest nose for human weaknesses, and was pitilessly honest in his observations . . . For experience of a whole century he was the man within.
-- Norman Sherry, Independent

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author Bio
Graham Greene was born in Hertfordshire in 1904. While at Balliol College, Oxford he published his first book of verse. He continued to write throughout his lifetime, and served with the Secret Intelligence Service during the Second World War. He was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. 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.' He died in 1991.