Brighton rock
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"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..." Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind. Pinkie, a teenage gangster on the rise, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of both the spirit and the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed mob boss Kite and also for the death of Hale, a reporter who threatened the livelihood of the mob, Pinkie is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, Pinkie is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands. He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it, she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice. This Penguin Classics Deluxe edition features an introduction by J. M. Coetzee. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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display_description | A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain's criminal underworld in this "brilliant and uncompromising" thriller (The New York Times). Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised amid the casual violence and corruption in the dire prewar Brighton slums, has left his final judgment in the hands of God. On the streets, impelled by his own twisted moral doctrine, he leads a motley pack of gangsters whose sleazy little rackets have most recently erupted in the murder of an informant. Pinkie's attempts to cover their tracks have led him into the bed of a timid and love-struck young waitress named Rose-his new wife, the key witness to his crimes, and, should she live long enough, his alibi. But loitering in the shadows is another woman, Ida Arnold-an avenging angel determined to do right by Pinkie's latest victim. Adapted for film in both 1948 and 2010 and for the stage as both a drama and musical, and serving as an inspiration to such disparate artists as Morrissey, John Barry, and Queen, "this bleak, seething and anarchic novel still resonate[s]" (The Guardian). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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series | Penguin classics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Brighton (England) -- Fiction, Electronic books, Gangs -- Fiction, Psychological fiction, Psychopaths -- Fiction, Suspense fiction, Teenage boys -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | Brighton rock | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | Brighton Rock [electronic resource] / Graham Greene, Brighton rock / Graham Greene ; introduction by J.M. Coetzee, Brighton rock [electronic resource] Greene, Graham, 1904-1991. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | Brighton rock | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Electronic books, Gangs, Psychopaths, Teenage boys |