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'He was ready for more deaths.' Pinkie Brown, a young gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of vitriol, will kill anyone to stay alive and free. In the first of his major novels, Graham Greene looks into this brutal mind and finds there a yearning for repentance. Brighton Rock (1938) is both a thriller and the study of soul in torment. Pinkie is hunted down both by Ida, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, and by a mysterious power of pity and mercy. Set against seaside amusements and race-track protection rackets, this story, twice filmed, has become one of the classics of modern literature, mapping out the strange border between holiness and savagery.
With an Introduction by Professor Richard Greene.
About the author
Graham Greene wurde 1904 in Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, geboren. Nach seinem Studium der Geschichte in Oxford arbeitete er zunächst bei der "Times" in London, danach als Filmkritiker beim "Spectator". Die großen Reisen, die er unternahm - u. a. nach Westafrika und Asien - wurden auch zum Fundus für seine schriftstellerische Tätigkeit. Er wurde mehrmals als Kandidat für den Literaturnobelpreis gehandelt und zählt zu den bedeutendsten Schriftstellern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Greene starb 1991 in Genf.
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'He was ready for more deaths.' Pinkie Brown, a young gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of vitriol, will kill anyone to stay alive and free. In the first of his major novels, Graham Greene looks into this brutal mind and finds there a yearning for repentance. Brighton Rock (1938) is both a thriller and the study of soul in torment. Pinkie is hunted down both by Ida, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, and by a mysterious power of pity and mercy. Set against seaside amusements and race-track protection rackets, this story, twice filmed, has become one of the classics of modern literature, mapping out the strange border between holiness and savagery.
With an Introduction by Professor Richard Greene.
