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I am hard put to think of a single other book as free from humour and light. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the appalling. Greene finished the novel in january 1938 and in may worked on proofs of the american edition sherry ii. Graham greenes classic study in the banality of evil is set in the unforgettably evoked underworld of prewar brighton where pinkie, a smalltime ganster, meets his nemesis at the hands of ida, the girl he. A blend of horror, adventure, mystery and morbid realism for this weird, sometimes original story of murders at brighton rock, the london coney island.
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Mar 02, 2011 listen to brighton rock audiobook by graham greene. Brighton rock is a novel by graham greene, published in 1938 and later adapted for film in 1947 and 2010. Brighton rock by graham greene overdrive rakuten overdrive. One of the main characters, pinkie, the villain, resembles the main character in this gun for hire, another of greene s mob novels, the movie version of which starred alan ladd. Sam riley as pinkie brown in the new film version of brighton rock, set in the 1960s. The title refers to a confectionery traditionally sold at seaside resorts, which in the novel is used as a metaphor for the personality of pinkie, which is the same all the way through. Seventeenyear old pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man.
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