Brighton rock : an entertainment / Graham Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brighton (England)--Fiction.

Brighton (England).

Teenage boys--Fiction.

Teenage boys.

Psychopaths--Fiction.

Psychopaths.

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Physical Description:

[8], 358 p. ; 21 m.

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking Press, 1938.

Summary:

This novel is a chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare in the pre-WWII underworld. Pinkie, the teenage gangster, is devoid of compassion or human feeling, despising weakness of the spirit or of the flesh. Responsible for the razor slashes that killed Kite and also for the death of Hale, he is the embodiment of calculated evil. As a Catholic, however, he is convinced that his retribution does not lie in human hands. He is therefore not prepared for Ida Arnold, Hale's avenging angel. Ida, whose allegiance is with life, the here and now, has her own ideas about the circumstances surrounding Hale's death. For the sheer joy of it she takes up the challenge of bringing the infernal Pinkie to an earthly kind of justice.

Notes:

"Published in June 1938"--T.p. verso.

"First American edition"--Wobbe.

Cited in:

Fiction core collection. 16th ed., p. 287

Wobbe, R.A. Graham Greene, A13b

OCLC:

1011322