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Brighton Rock Audio Book
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Brighton Rock
Author:
Graham Greene
Reader: Richard Brown
A masterpiece of psychological realism, a fascinating study of evil, sin, and revenge. At 17, Pinkie despises weakness. He has no interest in mercy and no respect for compassion. When he murders a rival, his crime attracts an enemy's attention, and he begins his downward spiral of self-destruction. By the brilliant author of The Third Man and Our Man in Havana.
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Publish Date: 09/01/2002
ISBN: 9780786101603
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In Graham Greene's brilliant and harrowing psychological portrait of a sadistic young gangster, published in 1938, Pinkie, the teenaged head of a Brighton mob, becomes implicated in a murder early in the story. The only possible witness to the crime is Rose, a naive young waitress in a teashop who mistakes Pinkie's nervous inquiries for a sign of affection and falls in love with him. When Pinkie learns that a wife cannot be forced to testify against her husband in criminal cases, he marries Rose despite his feelings of distaste for her. All the while, however, Pinkie is being pursued by Ida, a prostitute who is obsessed with bringing him to justice. As Greene commented in his autobiography, "The Pinkies are the real Peter Pans--doomed to be juvenile for a lifetime. They have something of a fallen angel about them, a morality which once belonged to another place." This view suggests that Greene's preoccupation with religious themes, which became explicit in his later novels, began with this relatively early work. This was also the book that made Greene's reputation as a major literary figure.
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Book Reviews:
| "Dark, spare, pessimistic, shocking, a novel that says everything about adolescent violence and angst, and about the limits of faith and love--still an overwhelming reading experience." |
| Salon - Michael Korda (06/07/1999) |
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Author Bio:
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Greene was one of six children, the son of the headmaster of a boys' school, and a cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson. A shy, unhappy child, he made several suicide attempts. After attending Oxford (where he made a specialty of Russian roulette), in 1927 he married Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a Catholic--an act that enraged his family. The estrangement became even worse when Greene himself converted to Catholicism. He and his wife--to whom Greene was chronically unfaithful--had a son and a daughter, and later separated. Greene began his writing career as a journalist, but in 1929, his first novel, THE MAN WITHIN, was published, and thereafter he made his living as a writer--at first with difficulty, later with considerable success. Greene classified his fiction as either serious novels or "entertainments," in which he begins with the conventions of genre fiction but invariably lifts them into the realm of literature by the power of his writing. (BRIGHTON ROCK is only one of many examples.) A large percentage of his works also explore the Catholic themes of sin and redemption. Greene was an intelligence agent in World War II, which gave him material for some of his best spy novels. He wrote in nearly every literary genre, and more than 20 of his works have been made into movies including THE QUIET AMERICAN in 1958 (a film Greene loathed for its falsely happy ending and excision of the novel's strongly anti-American sentiments) and again in 2002 (a critically acclaimed film that restored Greene's themes); he also wrote screenplays and film reviews. Greene lived to be 86, and continued to write until nearly the end of his life.
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