Description
| Product ID: | 9781509828029 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Title: | Brighton Rock |
| Authors: | Author: Graham Greene |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic crime |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Graham Greene’s powerful novel of good, evil and adolescent rebellion. <p>Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder – but it does not go unnoticed. Rose, a naive young waitress at a rundown cafe, has the unwitting power to destroy his crucial alibi, and Ida Arnold, a woman bursting with easy certainties about what is right and wrong, has made it her mission to bring about justice and redemption. <br><br> Set among the seaside amusements and dilapidated boarding houses of Brighton’s pre-war underworld, <i>Brighton Rock</i> by Graham Greene is both a gritty thriller and a study of a soul in torment. A classic of modern literature, it maps out the strange border between piety and savagery. <br><br> This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of <i>Brighton Rock </i>features an introduction by the poet, biographer and editor, Professor Richard Greene. <br><br> Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-07-27 |
