Brighton Rock
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Library Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Boards - fair; spine with some insect damage. Binding - tight. DJ - Chipped and torn. Clean text.
A landmark of British crime fiction, Brighton Rock immerses readers in the seedy criminal underworld of 1930s Brighton, where seventeen-year-old gang leader Pinkie Brown — a cold, calculating sociopath — commits murder and manipulates those around him to protect his crumbling empire. Graham Greene masterfully chronicles Pinkie's psychological unraveling alongside a gripping cat-and-mouse pursuit led by the tenacious Ida Arnold, a woman driven by a fierce, secular sense of justice. Beneath its taut, suspenseful surface, the novel argues profound questions of good and evil, damnation and salvation, filtered through a distinctly Catholic moral lens that sets it apart from conventional thrillers. Greene's prose is atmospheric and unsparing, painting Brighton's gaudy seaside façade as a backdrop for genuine menace and spiritual despair. Widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, Brighton Rock remains a haunting meditation on the nature of sin and the terrifying possibility of a soul beyond redemption.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, Heinemann
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: Library Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Boards - fair; spine with some insect damage. Binding - tight. DJ - Chipped and torn. Clean text.
A landmark of British crime fiction, Brighton Rock immerses readers in the seedy criminal underworld of 1930s Brighton, where seventeen-year-old gang leader Pinkie Brown — a cold, calculating sociopath — commits murder and manipulates those around him to protect his crumbling empire. Graham Greene masterfully chronicles Pinkie's psychological unraveling alongside a gripping cat-and-mouse pursuit led by the tenacious Ida Arnold, a woman driven by a fierce, secular sense of justice. Beneath its taut, suspenseful surface, the novel argues profound questions of good and evil, damnation and salvation, filtered through a distinctly Catholic moral lens that sets it apart from conventional thrillers. Greene's prose is atmospheric and unsparing, painting Brighton's gaudy seaside façade as a backdrop for genuine menace and spiritual despair. Widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest novels, Brighton Rock remains a haunting meditation on the nature of sin and the terrifying possibility of a soul beyond redemption.