Brighton Rock
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
In the shadowy backstreets of 1930s Brighton, a vicious teenage gangster named Pinkie Brown navigates a world of razor blades, racetracks, and cold-blooded murder — drawing an unsuspecting young waitress named Rose into a web of violence and moral corruption she cannot begin to comprehend. Brighton Rock is a taut, atmospheric crime thriller that pits the secular nihilism of a killer against the profound questions of sin, guilt, and Catholic redemption, set against the gaudy, unsettling backdrop of an English seaside resort. Graham Greene's masterwork is a landmark of 20th-century British literature, celebrated for its unflinching psychological depth and its penetrating examination of good and evil, free will, and damnation. Greene's prose is precise and deeply evocative, imbuing even the most mundane details with a brooding menace that never relents. This Heron Books edition, with original illustrations by Barry Wilkinson and a frontispiece portrait by Sheilagh Noble, presents a visually distinctive version of a novel that continues to haunt readers long after the final, devastating page.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
In the shadowy backstreets of 1930s Brighton, a vicious teenage gangster named Pinkie Brown navigates a world of razor blades, racetracks, and cold-blooded murder — drawing an unsuspecting young waitress named Rose into a web of violence and moral corruption she cannot begin to comprehend. Brighton Rock is a taut, atmospheric crime thriller that pits the secular nihilism of a killer against the profound questions of sin, guilt, and Catholic redemption, set against the gaudy, unsettling backdrop of an English seaside resort. Graham Greene's masterwork is a landmark of 20th-century British literature, celebrated for its unflinching psychological depth and its penetrating examination of good and evil, free will, and damnation. Greene's prose is precise and deeply evocative, imbuing even the most mundane details with a brooding menace that never relents. This Heron Books edition, with original illustrations by Barry Wilkinson and a frontispiece portrait by Sheilagh Noble, presents a visually distinctive version of a novel that continues to haunt readers long after the final, devastating page.