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 McEwanWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780099478478Number of pages: 288Weight: 202 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 17 mm
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The most ingenious,inventive and exciting of our novelists... A master of storytellingGraham 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 literatureA superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversyI 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
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Visit the Graham Greene author pageJ. M. Coetzee
A distinguished academic and Nobel Prize-winning novelist,South African writer J.M. Coetzee is best known for his Booker Prize winning novel Disgrace. His latest novels include Slow Man,Diary of a Bad Year and his Jesus trilogy,concluded in 2020 with The Death of Jesus.
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