Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Brighton Rock: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), (Paperback)

from ElectricRay

Graham Greene writes crisply, and the colours and textures with which he paints an inter-war Brighton are vivid, if uniformly gray and brutal. The story is simple enough: I don't think it's what the characters do as much as what they stand for which interests Greene - for this reason the protagon...

from AHS-Wolfy

Now that Kite's dead most of his mob don't seem to want to stick around when the teen-aged Pinkie picks up the reins. When Pinkie decides an example needs to be made of one of the deserters, so as to keep the others in line, events head inexorably on a downward spiral with tragic consequences for...

from john257hopper

This is a re-read, after rewatching the superb 1947 film version starring Richard Attenborough as Pinkie and William Hartnell as Dallow. I must say that I think this is one of the relatively few cases where the film is better than the book, or at least more dramatic and absorbing as a cultural pr...

from PilgrimJess

"A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced." Brighton Rock was written in 1938 and is one of Graham Greene's most famous works. It opens with a newspaper man who has fallen in with the wrong crowd visiting Brighton for work and wher...

from henrybalzac

I am a great fan of Greene's, and as always this is a very enjoyable read with great pace and atmosphere. However, despite it's fame I do not think this is one of his best. Maybe too much has changed in our society since those pre-war days, but I found it difficult to relate to any of the charact...