Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

"Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him..."
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Graham Greene's chilling exposÂ© of violence and gang warfare in the pre-war underworld is a classic of its kind.Â 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.Â 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.
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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.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780142437971
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2004-09-28
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9780142437971

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780142437971
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2004-09-28
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9780142437971

Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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