Brighton Rock

Informationen zum Autor Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator . He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991. J.M. Coetzee ’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians , Life & Times of Michael K , Boyhood , Youth , Disgrace , Summertime , The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus . He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. Klappentext Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic! and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator . He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels! Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories! four travel books! six plays! three books of autobiography! two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays! and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991. Zusammenfassung 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Graham Greene, Greene Graham
• Con la collaborazione di: J. M. Coetzee (Introduzione)
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 07.10.2004
• EAN: 9780099478478
• ISBN: 978-0-09-947847-8
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Serie: Vintage Classics; Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Brighton and Hove, c 1930 to c 1939, Crime and mystery fiction, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), South & South East England