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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/10/2004
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ISBN: 9780099478478
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 202g
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RRP: £8.99
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE
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'.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 07/10/2004
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ISBN: 9780099478478
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Length: 288 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 202g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists... A master of storytelling"
V. S. Pritchett, The Times
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"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
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"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
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"A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy"
New York Times
