Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 07/10/2004
ISBN: 9780099478478
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
RRP: £9.99
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.
'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
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 07/10/2004
ISBN: 9780099478478
Length: 288 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
Weight: 202g
RRP: £9.99
The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists... A master of storytelling
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
A superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy
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